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Genus: Myrmarachne MacLeay, 1839 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Myrmarachne opaca (Karsch, 1880)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034865

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Described:

Distribution: Malaysia (Borneo), Philippines

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) Synemosyna opaca Karsch, 1880, (1530) -

Taxonomic References

Synemosyna opaca Karsch, 1880c: 395 (Dm) Original description

Myrmarachne opaca Banks, 1930a: 211, pl. 7, f. 12

Myrmarachne opaca Yamasaki & Ahmad, 2013: 546, f. 36A-G (m)

Myrmarachne opaca Benjamin, 2015b: 2660, f. 39C-F (m)

References

Banks, N. (1930a). Ant-like spiders of the genus Myrmarachne from the Philippines. Psyche 37(3): 207-217. doi: 10.1155/1930/97165 -- Show included taxa

Benjamin, S. P. (2015b). Model mimics: antlike jumping spiders of the genus Myrmarachne from Sri Lanka. Journal of Natural History 49(43-44): 2609-2666. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1034209 -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1880c). Arachnologische Blätter (Decas I). Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften, Dritte Folge 5: 373-409, pl. 12. -- Show included taxa

Yamasaki, T. & Ahmad, A. H. (2013). Taxonomic study of the genus Myrmarachne of Borneo (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 3710: 501-556. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3710.6.1 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2015-10-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Benjamin, 2015b