Myrmarachne formicaria

Myrmarachne formicaria
male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Subkingdom:	Eumetazoa
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Section:	Dionycha
Superfamily:	Salticoidea
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Myrmarachninae
Genus:	Myrmarachne
Species:	M. formicaria
Subspecies:	M. f. tyrolensis
Binomial name
Myrmarachne formicaria (de Geer, 1778)
Synonyms
Aranea joblotii Aranea formicaria Attus formicarius Attus formicoides Salticus formicarius Pyrophorus semirufus Pyrophorus helveticus Pyrophorus siciliensis Attus helveticus Pyrophorus austriacus Saltica formicaria Pyrophorus venetiarum Pyrophorus flaviventris Pyroderes formicarius Pyroderes helveticus Pyroderes semirufus Pyroderes venetiarum Pyroderes flaviventris Toxeus formicarius Myrmarachne jobloti Myrmarachne joblotii

Myrmarachne formicaria is a jumping spider that mimics an ant. It is one of the few species in genus Myrmarachne that is found outside the tropics.

Name

The species name formicaria means "ant-like" in Latin.

Distribution

M. formicaria has a palearctic distribution, has been introduced to the United States, and has been found in the Greater Toronto Area of Canada as of 2015. The population is spreading and has reached at least as far as Stratford, Ontario as of May 2016. Western NY as of 2016.

References

• Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.

External links

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