Taxon details

Family: Salticidae / Genus: Myrmarachne

Myrmarachne foenisex Simon, 1909

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-12-25
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034779]
  • Distribution: Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Gabon, DR Congo, Angola
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; m (N.B.: published as lectotpye, but there is no evidence, that the original description was based on more than 1m) (Wanless, 1978a)
Taxonomic references
Myrmarachne foenisex Simon, 1909f: 415 (Dm).
Myrmarachne foenisex Giltay, 1929: 25, f. 3-4 (m, Df).
Myrmarachne foenisex Berland & Millot, 1941: 406, f. 96 (mf).
Myrmarachne foenisex Lessert, 1942: 10, f. 5 (f).
Myrmarachne foenisex Wanless, 1978a: 60, f. 33A-G, 34A-E, pl. 1h, 2a, 3e-f (mf).
Myrmarachne foenisex Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011: 583, f. 103-110 (mf).
Myrmarachne foenisex Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 64, f. 38H (f habitus).
References

Berland, L. & Millot, J. (1941). Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Française I.-Les salticides. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (N.S.) 12: 297-423. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Giltay, L. (1929). Notes arachnologiques africaines. I. Une espèce nouvelle de Dinopis (Dinopis Schoutedeni nov. sp.) du Congo belge. II. Myrmarachne foenisex Sim., araignée myrmécophile oecophylliforme, au Congo belge. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 18: 23-27. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1942). Araignées myrmecomorph du Congo Belge. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 49: 7-13. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1909f). Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 2e partie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 44: 335-449. [year corrected from 1910 to 1909, see pp. 337, 353, 369, etc.; following Bonnet, contra Roewer] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1978a). A revision of the spider genera Belippo and Myrmarachne (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 33(1): 1-139. doi:10.5962/p.28732 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2011). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from southern Nigeria. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 61(3): 553-619. doi:10.3161/000345411X603409 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2022). Jumping spiders from Ivory Coast collected by J.-C. Ledoux (Araneae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 841: 1-143. doi:10.5852/ejt.2022.841.1943 download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Metzner, H. (2019). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2016). Monograph of Salticidae (Araneae) of the World 1995-2015. Part II. Global Species Database of Salticidae (Araneae). Version October 30th, 2016, online at http://www.salticidae.pl. download pdf

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-12-25 Species distribution update Pett, Iyomi & Mbende, 2023 n/a (Old value)
2022-12-04 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 n/a