Taxon details

Family: Salticidae / Genus: Myrmarachne

Myrmarachne spissa (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-01-16
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034905]
  • Distribution: India, Sri Lanka
Type deposit provide information
  • Syntype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; 4m (23159) (Tripathi et al., 2023a)
Taxonomic references
Salticus spissus Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 37, pl. 2, f. 8 (Dm).
Myrmarachne spissa Simon, 1901a: 500.
Myrmarachne spissa Benjamin, 2015b: 2652, f. 32A-J, 33A-D, 34A-D, 35A-F, 36A-C, 37A-F (m, Df).
Myrmarachne spissa Tripathi et al., 2023a: 2, f. 1-15 (mf).
References

Benjamin, S. P. (2015b). 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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1892). Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(1): 1-84, pl. 1-7. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tripathi, R., Jose, A., Nafin, K. S., Babu, N. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2023a). The first description of the female of Myrmarachne uniseriata Narayan, 1915 and the first report of Myrmarachne spissa (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892) from India. Peckhamia 289.1: 1-10. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7542028 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
2023-01-16 New taxonomic reference entry Tripathi et al., 2023a n/a
2023-01-16 Species distribution update Tripathi et al., 2023a n/a (Old value)
2015-10-29 New taxonomic reference entry Benjamin, 2015b n/a
2015-10-29 First description of female Benjamin, 2015b n/a (Old value)