World Spider Catalog

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

Myrmecotypus rubrofemoratus Perger & Rubio, 2021

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053155

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Described:

Distribution: Peru, Bolivia

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Instituto de Biología Subtropical (IBSI), Misiones, Argentina m (Ara 1507) - (Perger & Rubio, 2021a)
Allotype: Instituto de Biología Subtropical (IBSI), Misiones, Argentina f (Ara 1467) - (Perger & Rubio, 2021a)
Paratype: Instituto de Biología Subtropical (IBSI), Misiones, Argentina 1f (Ara) - (Perger & Rubio, 2021a)
Paratype: Colección Boliviana de Fauna (CBF), La Paz, Bolivia 3f - (Perger & Rubio, 2021a)

Taxonomic References

Myrmecotypus rubrofemoratus Perger & Rubio, 2021a: 3, f. 2, 3A-C, 4A-B, 5A-B (Dmf) Original description

Myrmecotypus rubrofemoratus Silva-Junior & Bonaldo, 2024: 472, f. 1C, 14A-E (m)

References

Perger, R. & Rubio, G. D. (2021a). A new species of Myrmecotypus Pickard-Cambridge spider (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae) from the Bolivian orocline, imitating one of the world's most aggressive ants. Insecta Mundi 860: 1-8. -- 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

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2024-12-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Silva-Junior & Bonaldo, 2024
2024-12-20	Species distribution update	Silva-Junior & Bonaldo, 2024	Old value
2021-04-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Perger & Rubio, 2021a
2021-04-30	New species inserted	Perger & Rubio, 2021a