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Genus: Myrmecotypus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894 | Family: Corinnidae Karsch, 1880

Myrmecotypus niger Chickering, 1937

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025368

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Described:

Distribution: Panama, Bolivia, Brazil

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m - (Reiskind, 1969)
Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil f (286, destroyed by the fire 2018) of Apochinomma formicoides - (Silva-Junior & Bonaldo, 2024)

Taxonomic References

Myrmecotypus niger Chickering, 1937c: 35, pl. 3, f. 42, pl. 4, f. 54 (Dm) Original description

Apochinomma formicoides Mello-Leitão, 1939h: 289, f. 6-8 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:024927]

Myrmecotypus niger Reiskind, 1969: 274, f. 241-244, 286 (m, Df)

Myrmecotypus niger Carvalho & Gasnier, 2019: CB22, f. 73-74 (m)

Myrmecotypus niger Silva-Junior & Bonaldo, 2024: 462, f. 1B, 8A-J (mf, S of Apochinomma formicoides)

References

Carvalho, T. G. de & Gasnier, T. R. J. (2019). Illustrated inventory of spiders from Amazonas state, Brazil: 94 understory species from a forest fragment in Manaus. Scientia Amazonia 8(2): CB1-CB53. -- Show included taxa

Chickering, A. M. (1937c). The Clubionidae of Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 56(1): 1-47. doi: 10.2307/3222720 -- Show included taxa

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. -- Show included taxa

Reiskind, J. (1969). The spider subfamily Castianeirinae of North and Central America (Araneae, Clubionidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 138(5): 163-325. -- Show included taxa

Silva-Junior, 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 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-12-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Silva-Junior & Bonaldo, 2024
2024-12-20	Species synonymy	Silva-Junior & Bonaldo, 2024		Myrmecotypus formicoides synonymized with Myrmecotypus niger
2020-06-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Carvalho & Gasnier, 2019
2020-06-10	Species distribution update	Perger & Rubio, 2020a	Old value