Bucranium (genus)

Bucranium (genus)

Taxobox
name = "Bucranium taurifrons"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Araneomorphae
familia = Thomisidae
genus = "Bucranium"
genus_authority = O. P-Cambridge, 1881
species = "B. taurifrons"
binomial = "Bucranium taurifrons"
binomial_authority = O. P-Cambridge, 1881
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"Bucranium taurifrons" is a species of ant-mimicking crab spiders from South America, the only species in the genus] "Bucranium". It is found in Venezuela, Peru, Brazil and Paraguay.

Like the crab spider "Aphantochilus", it mimic ants of the genus "Cephalotes" (probably "C. atratus"), which are their preferred prey. It also carries dead ants.

Name

"Tauros" means "bull" in Greek, "frons" is Latin for "front".


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