Myrmecium (spider)

Myrmecium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Corinnidae
Genus: Myrmecium
Latreille, 1824
Species

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Diversity
16 species

Myrmecium is a genus of ant-mimicking spiders. The 16 known species occur only in South America.

Eugène Simon described the totally unrelated jumping spider species Synemosyna formica as Myrmecium lunatum in 1897; Mello-Leitao described the same species as Myrmecium rubrum in 1932.

Species

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