Myrmecium (lat.) Is a genus of myrmecomorphic spiders from the family of Corinnidae spiders . Neotropics . South America 38 species [1] [2] .
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 Spiders similar to ants Myrmecium latreillei (No. 3) and Myrmecium vertebratum (No. 2) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Description
The length of males is from 5.1 to 12.0 mm, females from 4.84 to 10.53 mm. Due to the elongated body shape with constrictions and a small rounded stalked abdomen, Myrmecium looks like ants . Similar to the genus of spiders Sphecotypus OP-Cambridge, 1895 (Southeast Asia, Neotropics), on the basis of the presence of a deep constriction on the narrowed cephalothorax, but differs from it and other representatives of the Castianeirinae subfamily by three deep prosomal constrictions (including between basins II and III and between III and IV) [1] [3] .
Systematics
38 species whose validity was verified during the genus revision conducted in 2017 by Brazilian arachnologists David Candiani , Belo Horizonte , Minas Gerais , Brazil ) and Alexander Bonaldo ( Alexandre B. Bonaldo , Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Coordenaã de Zoologia, Laboratório de Aracnologia, Belem , Para ). It is included in the Castianeirinae subfamily of the Corinnidae spider family [2] .
List of Species
- Myrmecium bifasciatum Taczanowski, 1874 - Brazil, French Guiana
- Myrmecium bonaerense Holmberg, 1881 - Argentina
- Myrmecium camponotoides Mello-Leitão, 1932 - Brazil [4]
- = Myrmecium aurantiacum Mello-Leitão, 1941 - Brazil [5]
- Myrmecium dacetoniforme Mello-Leitão, 1932 - Brazil [4]
- Myrmecium fuscum Dahl, 1907 - Bolivia
- Myrmecium latreillei (Lucas, 1856) - Brazil
- = Myrmecium gounellei Simon, 1896 - Brazil [6]
- = Myrmecium obscurum Keyserling, 1891 - Brazil
- Myrmecium monacanthum Simon, 1897 - Venezuela
- Myrmecium reticulatum Dahl, 1907 - Peru
- Myrmecium rufum Latreille, 1824 - Brazil typus
- = Myrmecium vertebratum (Walckenaer, 1837) - Brazil
- = Myrmecium itatiaiae Mello-Leitão, 1932 - Brazil [4]
- Myrmecium trifasciatum Caporiacco, 1947 - Guyana
- Myrmecium viehmeyeri Dahl, 1907 - Peru
- Additions (2017): M. amphora (Venezuela); M. bolivari (Venezuela, Colombia ); M. carajas (Brazil); M. carvalhoi (Brazil); M. catuxy (Brazil, Colombia); M. chikish (Peru); M. cizauskasi (Brazil); M. oliveirai (Brazil); M. deladanta ( Ecuador ); M. diasi (Brazil); M. erici (British Guiana); M. ferro (Brazil); M. indicatti (Brazil); M. nogueirai (Brazil, Peru); M. lomanhungae (Brazil); M. machetero ( Bolivia ); M. malleum (Venezuela, Colombia); M. oompaloompa (Brazil, Guyana); M. otti (Brazil, Peru); M. pakpaka (Peru); M. raveni (Brazil); M. ricettii (Brazil, Colombia); M. luepa (Venezuela); M. souzai (Brazil); M. tanguro (Brazil); M. tikuna (Brazil); M. urucu (Brazil); M. yamamotoi (Brazil, Suriname).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Yuri M. Marusik, Mikhail M. Omelko & Seppo Koponen. A redescription of the ant mimicking spider Myrmecium gounellei (Araneae: Corinnidae, Castianeirinae), with notes on the genus (English) // Zootaxa : Journal. - Magnolia Press, 2015 .-- Vol. 3985, no. 2 . - P. 296-300. - ISSN 1175-5326 . http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3985.2.9
- ↑ 1 2 David F. Candiani, Alexandre B. Bonaldo. The superficial ant: a revision of the Neotropical ant-mimicking spider genus Myrmecium Latreille, 1824 (Araneae, Corinnidae, Castianeirinae) (Eng.) // Zootaxa : Journal. - Auckland , New Zealand : Magnolia Press, 2017 .-- Vol. 4230, no. 1 . - P. 1-95. - ISSN 1175-5326 . - DOI : 10.11646 / zootaxa.4230.1.1 .
- ↑ Paulo S. Oliveira. (1988). Ant-mimicry in some Brazilian salticid and clubionid spiders (Araneae: Salticidae, Clubionidae). - Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (1988), 33: I - 15. With 8 figures.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Mello-Leitão, CF de. (1932) Notas sobre o genero Myrmecium. Annaes da Academia Brasileira de Sciencias, 4, 149–160.
- ↑ Mello-Leitão, CF de (1941) Notas sobre a sistematica das aranhas com descrição de algumas novas especies Sul Americanas. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 13, 103–127.
- ↑ Marusik, YM, Omelko, MM & Koponen, S. (2015) A redescription of the ant mimicking spider Myrmecium gounellei (Araneae: Corinnidae, Castianeirinae), with notes on the genus. Zootaxa , 3985 (2), 296-300. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3985.2.9
Literature
- Seyfulina R. R., Kartsev V. M. Spiders of the middle strip of Russia: Atlas-determinant. - M .: Fiton +, 2011 .-- 608 p. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-93457-348-6 .
- David Figueiredo Candiani. (2011). Análise cladística e revisão taxonômica do gênero mirmecomórfico Myrmecium Latreille, 1824 (Araneae, Corinnidae, Castianeirinae). - III Congreso Latinoamericano de Aracnología. 2011.
- David Figueiredo Candiani. (2007). Preliminary results of the revision of the genus Myrmecium Latreille, 1824 (Araneae, Corinnidae). - 17º International Congress of Arachnology. 2007.
- Reiskind, J. (1969) The spider subfamily Castianeirinae on North and Central America (Araneae, Clubionidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 138, 163–325.
Links
- Myrmecium. World Spider Catalog Version 16 . Natural History Museum Bern
- Catalog of Life: Myrmecium