Species Myrmarachne macleayana (Bradley, 1876)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Salticus macleayanus Bradley, H.B. 1876. On some new forms of Arachnidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 220-224 [220, pl. II].

  Type data:

   Holotype ♂? (originally in Macleay Museum then in Bradley Collection), Endeavour River, Qld.

Generic Combinations

• Myrmarachne macleayana (Bradley, 1876). —
  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

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Ant mimic.

General References

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.)

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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