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Myrmecotypus
Sign in to saveMyrmecotypus is a genus of ant mimicking corinnid sac spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1894. Species mainly occur from Panama to Mexico, with one species found in the United States, and one in Argentina.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 32
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Corinnidae
- Collections
- MCZ, FMNH, MPEG, WCU, USNM
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Honduras, Brasil, United States
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- Parent taxon
- Corinnidae
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- Myrmecotypus.rettenmeyeri.lateral.svg
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Myrmecotypus is a genus of ant mimicking corinnid sac spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1894. Species mainly occur from Panama to Mexico, with one species found in the United States, and one in Argentina.
M. rettenmeyeri, named after entomologist Carl Rettenmeyer, has an unusual longitudinal band of black hairs extending along the midline of the cephalothorax, enhancing its resemblance to Camponotus sericeiventris, an ant it shares a habitat with. The black hairs correspond to the solid longitudinal keel-like dorsal extensions of the posterior sections of the ant's thorax.
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