Genus:
Myrmarachne MacLeay, 1839
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Family: Salticidae
Blackwall, 1841
Myrmarachne melanocephala MacLeay, 1839
SPECIES | ACCEPTED
| TYPE SPECIES
LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034850
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Described:
Distribution: Pakistan to Indonesia
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Taxonomic References
Myrmarachne melanocephala MacLeay, 1839: 11, pl. 1, f. 4 (Dm) Original description
Myrmecia melanocephala Walckenaer, 1841: 462 (Df)
Myrmarachne melanocephala Galiano, 1969b: 146 (type locality is "Bengal," not Cuba)
Myrmarachne orientales Tikader, 1973b: 60, f. 3-6 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034866]
Myrmarachne orientales Tikader & Biswas, 1981: 105, f. 193-194 (f)
Myrmarachne orientalis Brignoli, 1983c: 644 (lapsus)
Myrmarachne orientales Mushtaq et al., 1995: 91, f. 1A-F (m)
Myrmarachne melanocephala Edwards & Benjamin, 2009: 5, f. 1A-H, 2A-D, 3A-D, 4A-E, 5A-D (mf, S of Myrmarachne albicrurata, M. lateralis, M. providens, M. ramosa and Salticus contractus; rejected by Prószyński, 2017b: 100, 101, see Myrmarachne contracta, Myrmarachne providens and Myrmarachne ramosa)
Myrmarachne melanocephala Yamasaki & Edwards, 2013: 15, f. 46-58 (mf)
Myrmarachne melanocephala Yamasaki & Ahmad, 2013: 541, f. 32A-G, 33A-H, 34A-C (mf)
Myrmarachne orientales Sen et al., 2015: 42, f. 152-156, pl. 14 (f)
Myrmarachne melanocephala Benjamin, 2015b: 2625, f. 17A-D, 18A-D, 19A-D (m, S of Myrmarachne orientales)
Myrmarachne melanocephala Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2016: 24, f. 20A-F, 25I, 27R (f)
Myrmarachne melanocephala Caleb, 2016c: 410, f. 20-30 (mf)
Myrmarachne melanocephala Dhali, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2017: 39, f. 105-109, pl. 17 (f)
Myrmarachne melanocephala Prószyński, 2017b: 103, f. 45B1, 45C9, 46B (mf)
Myrmarachne melanocephala Prószyński, 2018b: 165, f. 19B, 22E1 (f)
Myrmarachne melanocephala Kumar, Sharma & Sharma, 2021: 19755, f. 2A-D, 3, 4A-E (mf)
References
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
Brignoli, P. M. (1983c). A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press, 755 pp. -- Show included taxa
Caleb, J. T. D. (2016c). Taxonomic notes on some ant-mimicking jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from India. Arthropoda Selecta 25(4): 403-420. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.25.4.09 -- Show included taxa
Dhali, D. C., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2017). Litter and ground dwelling spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of reserve forests of Dooars, West Bengal. World Scientific News 63: 1-242. -- Show included taxa
Edwards, G. B. & Benjamin, S. P. (2009). A first look at the phylogeny of the Myrmarachninae, with rediscovery and redescription of the type species of Myrmarachne (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 2309: 1-29. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2309.1.1 -- Show included taxa
Galiano, M. E. (1969b). Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes. VII. El género Myrmarachne Mac Leay, 1839, en America. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Ent.) 3: 107-148. -- Show included taxa
Kumar, R., Sharma, M. & Sharma, A. K. (2021). New record of Myrmarachne melanocephala MacLeay, 1839 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Jharkhand, India and biogeographical implications of the co-occurrence of its ant model Tetraponera rufonigra Jerdon, 1851. Journal of Threatened Taxa 13(12): 19753-19761. doi: 10.11609/jott.7500.13.12.19753-19761 -- Show included taxa
MacLeay, W. S. (1839). On some new forms of Arachnida. Annals of Natural History 2(7): 1-14, pl. 1-2. -- Show included taxa
Mushtaq, S., Beg, M. A., Waris, M. & Khan, A. A. (1995). Myrmarachne maratha Tikader and Myrmarachne orientales Tikader (Araneae: Salticidae), two new records to Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 27: 91-92. -- Show included taxa
Prószyński, J. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.12.1 -- Show included taxa
Prószyński, J. (2018b). Review of genera Evarcha and Nigorella, with comments on Emertonius, Padilothorax [sic], Stagetillus, and description of five new genera and two new species (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 16: 130-179. doi: 10.37828/em.2018.16.12 -- Show included taxa
Roy, T. K., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2016). A treatise on the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of tea ecosystem of Dooars, West Bengal, India. World Scientific News 53(1): 1-66. -- Show included taxa
Sen, S., Dhali, D. C., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2015). Spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of reserve forests of Dooars: Gorumara National Park, Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary and Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary. World Scientific News 20: 1-339. -- Show included taxa
Tikader, B. K. (1973b). Studies on some ant-like spiders from India (family: Salticidae). Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Science 78(B): 59-67. -- Show included taxa
Tikader, B. K. & Biswas, B. (1981). Spider fauna of Calcutta and vicinity: Part-I. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 30: 1-149. -- Show included taxa
Walckenaer, C. A. (1841). Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Tome deuxième. Roret, Paris, 549 pp., pl. 16-22. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.61095 [[not published in 1837, see pp. 430, 452, 505; plates in second pdf of Walckenaer, 1837]] -- Show included taxa
Yamasaki, T. & Edwards, G. B. (2013). The genus Myrmarchne (Araneae, Salticidae) in Flores, Indonesia. ZooKeys 299: 1-20. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.299.4970 -- 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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Prószyński, J. (2016). Monograph of Salticidae (Araneae) of the World 1995-2015. Part II. Global Species Database of Salticidae (Araneae). Version October 30th, 2016, online at http://www.salticidae.pl. 
GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]
Edit History
| Date | Type | Reference | Old value | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-29 | New taxonomic reference entry | Kumar, Sharma & Sharma, 2021 | ||
| 2018-04-27 | New taxonomic reference entry | Prószyński, 2018b | ||
| 2017-09-17 | New taxonomic reference entry | Prószyński, 2017b | ||
| 2017-09-17 | Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon | Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Myrmarachne contracta (Karsch, 1880) | ||
| 2017-09-17 | Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon | Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Myrmarachne providens (Peckham & Peckham, 1892) | ||
| 2017-09-17 | Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon | Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Myrmarachne providens (Peckham & Peckham, 1892) | ||
| 2017-09-17 | Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon | Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Myrmarachne ramosa Badcock, 1918 | ||
| 2017-09-17 | Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon | Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Myrmarachne ramosa Badcock, 1918 | ||
| 2017-09-17 | Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon | Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Myrmarachne ramosa Badcock, 1918 | ||
| 2017-09-17 | Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon | Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Myrmarachne ramosa Badcock, 1918 | ||
| 2017-09-17 | Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon | Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Myrmarachne ramosa Badcock, 1918 | ||
| 2017-02-08 | New taxonomic reference entry | Dhali, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2017 | ||
| 2016-12-22 | New taxonomic reference entry | Caleb, 2016c | ||
| 2016-10-25 | Taxonomic reference added from other taxon | Old value | ||
| 2016-09-30 | New taxonomic reference entry | Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2016 | ||
| 2015-12-10 | New taxonomic reference entry | Sen et al., 2015 | ||
| 2015-10-29 | New taxonomic reference entry | Benjamin, 2015b | ||
| 2015-10-29 | Species synonymy | Benjamin, 2015b | Myrmarachne orientales synonymized with Myrmarachne melanocephala |
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