Myrmecium (spider)

Myrmecium is a genus of ant-mimicking corinnid sac spiders first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1824.[2] The unrelated jumping spider species Synemosyna formica has been mistaken for a member of this genus twice, once by Eugène Simon in 1897 (Myrmecium lunatum)[3] and once by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1932 (Myrmecium rubrum).[4]

Myrmecium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Corinnidae
Genus: Myrmecium
Latreille, 1824[1]
Type species
M. rufum
Latreille, 1824
Species

39, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains thirty-nine species in South America and the Caribbean:[1]

  • Myrmecium amphora Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Venezuela
  • Myrmecium bifasciatum Taczanowski, 1874 – Bolivia, Trinidad, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil
  • Myrmecium bolivari Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Venezuela, Colombia
  • Myrmecium bonaerense Holmberg, 1881 – Argentina
  • Myrmecium camponotoides Mello-Leitão, 1932 – Brazil
  • Myrmecium carajas Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Brazil
  • Myrmecium carvalhoi Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Brazil
  • Myrmecium catuxy Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Colombia, Brazil
  • Myrmecium chikish Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Peru
  • Myrmecium cizauskasi Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Brazil
  • Myrmecium dacetoniforme Mello-Leitão, 1932 – Brazil
  • Myrmecium deladanta Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Ecuador
  • Myrmecium diasi Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Brazil
  • Myrmecium erici Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Guyana
  • Myrmecium ferro Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Brazil
  • Myrmecium fuscum Dahl, 1907 – Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
  • Myrmecium indicattii Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Brazil
  • Myrmecium latreillei (Lucas, 1857) – Brazil
  • Myrmecium lomanhungae Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Brazil
  • Myrmecium luepa Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Venezuela
  • Myrmecium machetero Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Bolivia, Peru
  • Myrmecium malleum Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Venezuela, Colombia
  • Myrmecium monacanthum Simon, 1897 – Colombia
  • Myrmecium nogueirai Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Peru, Brazil
  • Myrmecium oliveirai Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Brazil
  • Myrmecium oompaloompa Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Brazil, Guyana
  • Myrmecium otti Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Peru, Brazil
  • Myrmecium pakpaka Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Peru
  • Myrmecium raveni Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Brazil
  • Myrmecium reticulatum Dahl, 1907 – Peru
  • Myrmecium ricettii Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Colombia, Brazil
  • Myrmecium rufum Latreille, 1824 (type) – Brazil
  • Myrmecium souzai Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Brazil
  • Myrmecium tanguro Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Brazil
  • Myrmecium tikuna Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Brazil
  • Myrmecium trifasciatum Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana, Brazil
  • Myrmecium urucu Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Brazil
  • Myrmecium viehmeyeri Dahl, 1907 – Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
  • Myrmecium yamamotoi Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Suriname, Brazil

References
  1. "Gen. Myrmecium Latreille, 1824". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
  2. Latreille, P. A. (1824). "Notice sur un nouveau genre d'Aranéides". Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Paris. 3: 23–27.
  3. Simon, E (1897). Histoire naturelle des araignées. p. 170. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
  4. Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1932). "Notas sobre o genero Myrmecium". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 4: 150.


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