Orsima

Orsima
Orsima
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Heliophaninae
Genus: Orsima
Simon, 1901
Type species
Orsima constricta
Simon, 1901
Species

see text

Diversity
2 species

Orsima is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).

O. ichneumon has been suggested to be a Polyrhachis (Formicinae) ant mimic in reverse, however a recent study dismissed this[1].

Species

  • Orsima constricta Simon, 1901 — West, Central Africa
  • Orsima ichneumon (Simon, 1901) — Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo

Footnotes

  1. ^ Edmunds 2006

References

  • Edmunds, Malcolm (2006): Do Malaysian Myrmarachne associate with particular species of ant? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 88: 645–653. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00649.x