Myrmecotypus niger

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Dionycha
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Araneomorphae Series: Entelegynae Sectio: Dionycha

Familia: Corinnidae
Subfamilia: Castianeirinae
Genus: Myrmecotypus
Species: Myrmecotypus niger

Name

Myrmecotypus niger Chickering, 1937: 35

Type locality: Barro Colorado Island, PANAMA: Canal Zone.

Holotype: MCZ. female ♀.

Synonymy

• Apochinomma formicoides Mello-Leitão, 1939: 289 (synonymized by Silva-Junior & Bonaldo, 2024: 462)
  • Type locality: Vila de Salobra, Miranda, Mato Grosso do Sul, BRAZIL.
    • Holotype: MNRJ. female ♀. destroyed in the 2018 MNRJ fire.

References

Primary references

• Chickering, A.M. 1937. The Clubionidae of Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 56: 1-47. DOI: 10.2307/3222720 . Reference page. 

Additional references

• Mello-Leitão, C.F. de 1939h. Aracnidos. Anexo N. 1 ao relatório da excursão científica do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz realizada na zona da E. F. N. O. B., em outubro de 1938. Boletim Biológico Sao Paulo (N.S.) 4: 281-294. Reference page. 
• Silva-Júnior, C.J. & Bonaldo, A.B. 2024. A revision of the South American species of the ant-mimicking spider genus Myrmecotypus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894 (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae). Zootaxa 5555(4): 451–496. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5555.4.1. . Reference page.