Myrmecium (genus)

Taxobox
name = "Myrmecium"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Araneomorphae
familia = Corinnidae
genus = "Myrmecium"
genus_authority = Latreille, 1824
diversity_link = List of Corinnidae species#Myrmecium
diversity = 16 species
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subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Myrmecium" is a genus of ant-mimicking spiders. The 16 known species occur only in South America.

Eugène Simon described the totally unrelated jumping spider species "Synemosyna formica" as "Myrmecium lunatum" in 1897; Mello-Leitao described the same species as "Myrmecium rubrum" in 1932.

pecies

* "Myrmecium aurantiacum" Mello-Leitão, 1941 (Brazil)
* "Myrmecium bifasciatum" Taczanowski, 1874 (Brazil, French Guiana)
* "Myrmecium bonaerense" Holmberg, 1881 (Argentina)
* "Myrmecium camponotoides" Mello-Leitão, 1932 (Brazil)
* "Myrmecium dacetoniforme" Mello-Leitão, 1932 (Brazil)
* "Myrmecium fuscum" Dahl, 1907 (Bolivia)
* "Myrmecium gounellei" Simon, 1896 (Brazil)
* "Myrmecium itatiaiae" Mello-Leitão, 1932 (Brazil)
* "Myrmecium latreillei" (Lucas, 1856) (Brazil)
* "Myrmecium monacanthum" Simon, 1897 (Venezuela)
* "Myrmecium obscurum" Keyserling, 1891 (Brazil)
* "Myrmecium reticulatum" Dahl, 1907 (Peru)
* "Myrmecium rufum" Latreille, 1824 (Brazil)
* "Myrmecium trifasciatum" Caporiacco, 1947 (Guyana)
* "Myrmecium vertebratum" (Walckenaer, 1837) (Brazil)
* "Myrmecium viehmeyeri" Dahl, 1907 (Peru)

External links

* [http://www.americanarachnology.org/HiResGallery/dionyc_clubionid_ant_mimic.html Clubionid ant-mimic from Trinidad and Tobago] ("Myrmecium sp." according to [http://www.americanarachnology.org/gallery_araneae_dionychans.html American Arachnology Online] )