Agorius
| Agorius | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Agorius constrictus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Subkingdom: | Eumetazoa |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Section: | Dionycha |
| Superfamily: | Salticoidea |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Agoriinae |
| Tribe: | Agoriini |
| Genus: | Agorius Thorell, 1877 |
| Series: | Entelegynae |
| Type species | |
| Agorius gracilipes Thorell, 1877 | |
| Species | |
|
see text | |
| Diversity | |
| 7 species | |
Agorius is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders).
Undescribed species have been found in Malaysia and Sabah.[1] No new species were described for about one hundred years, with two new species found in the early 2000s.
The genera Agorius and Synagelides (and perhaps Pseudosynagelides) are sometimes separated as a genus group, called subfamily Agoriinae Simon, 1901.[2] Several more species have been found but not yet described.[3]
Description
Both sexes are about six to eight mm long. Agorius is similar to Myrmarachne another good ant mimic, but can be distinguished from it by having no large, forward-pointing chelicerae, and is not found on vegetation above the ground, but only in rain forest leaf litter.[1]
A. borneensis, A. formicinus and A. semirufus are only known from male specimens, A. cinctus and A. gracilipes only from a female.[4]
Species
- Agorius baloghi Szűts, 2003 — New Guinea, New Britain
- Agorius borneensis Edmunds & Prószynski, 2001 — Borneo
- Agorius cinctus Simon, 1901 — Java, Lombok
- Agorius constrictus Simon, 1901 — Singapore
- Agorius formicinus Simon, 1903 — Sumatra
- Agorius gracilipes Thorell, 1877 — Sulawesi
- Agorius semirufus Simon, 1901 — Philippines
References
- Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
- Szűts, T. (2003). New species of Agorius Thorell, 1877 (Araneae: Salticidae) from New Guinea. Acta Zoologica Hungarica 49(1): 61-69.] PDF
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
Further reading
- Edmunds, M. & Prószynski, J (2001): New species of Malaysian Agorius and Sobasina (Araneae: Salticidae). Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc. 12: 139-143.
External links
- Salticidae.org: Diagnostic drawings and photographs