Species Myrmarachne lupata (L. Koch, 1879)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Synemosyna lupata Koch, L. 1879. Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 1 pp. 1045-1156. [1052, pl. 93 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype MGH 16505 ♂, Port MacKay, Qld.

Generic Combinations

• Myrmarachne lupata (L. Koch, 1879). —
  Rainbow, W.J. 1911. A census of Australian Araneidae. Records of the Australian Museum 9(2): 107-319 [Vol 9 titled as published 1912-1913, but Part 2 published 2 Oct 1911] [283]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Darwin Coastal (DAC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Ant mimic.

General References

Elgar, M.A. 1993. Inter-specific association involving spiders: Kleptoparasitism, mimicry and mutualism. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33: 411-430

Harland, D.P., Jackson, R.R. & Macnab, A.M. 1999. Distances at which jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) distinguish between prey and conspecific rivals. Journal of Zoology, London 247: 357-364

Jackson, R.R. 1982. The biology of ant-like jumping spiders: intraspecific interactions of Myrmarachne lupata (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 76: 293-319 (may be M. macleayana used not M. lupata; see Pekar et al. 2017.)

Jackson, R.R. 1986. The biology of ant-like jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae): prey and predatory behaviour of Myrmarachne with particular attention to M. lupata from Queensland. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 88: 179-190 (may be M. macleayana used not M. lupata; see Pekar et al. 2017.)

Jackson, R.R. 1987. Comparative study of releaser pheromones associated with the silk of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 14: 1-10

Jackson, R.R. & Willey, M.B. 1994. The comparative study of the predatory behaviour of Myrmarachne, ant-like jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 110: 77-102

Pekar, S., Petrakova, L. Corcobado, G. & Whyte, R. 2017. Revision of eastern Australian ant-mimicking spiders of the genus Myrmarachne (Araneae, Salticidae) reveals a complex of species and forms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 179: 642-676

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