Taxon details

Family: Salticidae / Genus: Myrmarachne

Myrmarachne nigeriensis Wanless, 1978

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-10-16
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034860]
  • Distribution: Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Angola
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; m (1975.11.25.1) (Wanless, 1978a)
  • Paratype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; 6m 2f (Wanless, 1978a)
  • Paratype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; 1m (Wanless, 1978a)
Taxonomic references
Myrmarachne nigeriensis Wanless, 1978a: 88, f. 55A-J, 56A-M (Dmf).
Myrmarachne nigeriensis Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011: 583, f. 114-120 (mf).
References

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

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
2022-10-16 Species distribution update Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 n/a (Old value)