Amyciaea

Amyciaea

Taxobox
name = "Amyciaea"


image_caption =
image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Araneomorphae
familia = Thomisidae
genus = "Amyciaea"
genus_authority = Simon, 1885
diversity_link = List of Thomisidae species#Amyciaea
diversity = 5 species
range_

range_map_width = 250px
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Amyciaea" is a genus of crab spiders that mimics ants, their preferred prey.

"A. albomaculata" mimics its weaver ant prey ("Oecophylla").

pecies

* "Amyciaea albomaculata" (O. P-Cambridge, 1874) (Australia, New Guinea)
* "Amyciaea forticeps" (O. P.-Cambridge, 1873) (India, China to Malaysia)
* "Amyciaea hesperia" Simon, 1895 (Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast)
* "Amyciaea lineatipes" O. P.-Cambridge, 1901 (Singapore, Sumatra)
* "Amyciaea orientalis" Simon, 1909 (Vietnam)

External links

* [http://www.americanarachnology.org/HiResGallery/dionyc_Amyciaea_albomaculata.html Picture of "A. albomaculata"]


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