Taxon details

Family: Corinnidae / Genus: Myrmecium

Myrmecium camponotoides Mello-Leitão, 1932

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2017-02-09
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025352]
  • Distribution: Brazil
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Myrmecium aurantiacum Mello-Leitão, 1941, (01247); 1 f (survived the fire 2018)
  • Syntype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Myrmecium camponotoides Mello-Leitão, 1932, (14083); 1 m (probably destroyed by the fire 2018)
  • Syntype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Myrmecium camponotoides Mello-Leitão, 1932, (14074); 2 m (survived the fire 2018)
Taxonomic references
Myrmecium camponotoides Mello-Leitão, 1932b: 155, f. 5-6 (Dm).
Myrmecium aurantiacum Mello-Leitão, 1941a: 124 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025349].
Myrmecium camponotoides Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017: 26, f. 55-57, 67-68 (mf, S of Myrmecium aurantiacum).
References

Candiani, D. F. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2017). The superficial ant: a revision of the Neotropical ant-mimicking spider genus Myrmecium Latreille, 1824 (Araneae, Corinnidae, Castianeirinae). Zootaxa 4230(1): 1-95. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4230.1.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1941a). Notas sobre a sistematica das aranhas com descrição de algumas novas especies Sul Ameicanas. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 13: 103-127. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1932b). Notas sobre o genero Myrmecium. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 4: 149-160. 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]

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2017-02-09 New taxonomic reference entry Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 n/a
2017-02-09 Species synonymy Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 Myrmecium aurantiacum synonymized with Myrmecium camponotoides