Myrmarachne melanocephala MacLeay, 1839:11
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Myrmecia melanocephala (MacLeay, 1839:11); Myrmarachne orientales Tikader, 1973:60; Myrmarachne orientalis Tikader, 1973:60 (lapsus)
Conservation Status
Rediscovered
Distribution
Asia (southern)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
MacLeay, W. S. (1839). On some new forms of Arachnida. Annals of Natural History 2(7): 1-14, pl. 1-2.
Other references:
Benjamin, S. P. (2015). Model mimics: antlike jumping spiders of the genus Myrmarachne from Sri Lanka. Journal of Natural History 49(43-44): 2609-2666. doi:10.1080/00222933.2015.1034209
Brignoli, P. M. (1983). A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press, 755 pp.
Caleb, J. T. D. (2016). Taxonomic notes on some ant-mimicking jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from India. Arthropoda Selecta 25(4): 403-420. doi:10.15298/arthsel.25.4.09
Dhali, D. C., Saha, S. and Raychaudhuri, D. (2017). Litter and ground dwelling spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of reserve forests of Dooars, West Bengal. World Scientific News 63: 1-242.
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Kumar, R., Sharma, M. and Sharma, A. K. (2021). New record of Myrmarachne melanocephala MacLeay, 1839 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Jharkhand, India and biogeographical implications of the co-occurrence of its ant model Tetraponera rufonigra Jerdon, 1851. Journal of Threatened Taxa 13(12): 19753-19761. https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.7500.13.12.19753-19761
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Yamasaki, T. and Edwards, G. B. (2013). The genus Myrmarchne (Araneae, Salticidae) in Flores, Indonesia. ZooKeys 299: 1-20. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.299.4970
Yamasaki, T. and Ahmad, A. H. (2013). Taxonomic study of the genus Myrmarachne of Borneo (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 3710: 501-556. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3710.6.1
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