Myrmatheca ransoni (Wanless, 1978)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034890

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Described:


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium f (142905) - (Wanless, 1978a)
Taxonomic References
Myrmarachne ransoni Wanless, 1978a: 124, f. 83A-E (Df) Original description
Myrmatheca ransoni Prószyński, 2016: 13 (T from Myrmarachne)
References

Prószyński, J. (2016). Delimitation and description of 19 new genera, a subgenus and a species of Salticidae (Araneae) of the world. Ecologica Montenegrina 7: 4-32. doi: 10.37828/em.2016.7.1 -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1978a). A revision of the spider genera Belippo and Myrmarachne (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 33(1): 1-139. doi: 10.5962/p.28732 -- 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
2024-07-18 New taxonomic reference entry Prószyński, 2016
2024-07-18 Species transferred to new genus Prószyński, 2016 Species transferred from Myrmarachne to Myrmatheca

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