https://indianpedia.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Amyciaea Amyciaea - Revision history 2026-07-31T05:36:17Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.45.4 https://indianpedia.org/index.php?title=Amyciaea&diff=85897&oldid=prev >Sesamehoneytart at 16:11, 26 July 2020 2020-07-26T16:11:44Z <p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}<br /> {{Automatic taxobox<br /> | taxon = Amyciaea<br /> | image = Thousand_Hands_(Spider).jpg<br /> | image_caption = &#039;&#039;Amyciaea lineatipes&#039;&#039;<br /> | authority = [[Eugène Simon|Simon]], 1885&lt;ref name=NMBE /&gt;<br /> | type_species = &#039;&#039;[[Amyciaea forticeps|A. forticeps]]&#039;&#039;<br /> | type_species_authority = ([[Octavius Pickard-Cambridge|O. Pickard-Cambridge]], 1873)<br /> | subdivision_ranks = Species<br /> | subdivision = 5, [[#Species|see text]]<br /> }}<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;Amyciaea&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039; is a [[genus]] of [[Ant mimicry|ant mimicking]] [[Thomisidae|crab spiders]] that was first described by [[Eugène Simon|Eugène Louis Simon]] in 1885.&lt;ref name=Simo1885&gt;{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1885| title=Matériaux pour servir à la faune arachnologiques de l&#039;Asie méridionale. III. Arachnides recueillis en 1884 dans la presqu&#039;île de Malacca, par M. J. Morgan. IV. Arachnides recueillis à Collegal, district de Coimbatoore, par M. A. Theobald G. R| journal=Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France| pages=436–462| volume=10| author-link=Eugène_Simon}}&lt;/ref&gt; <br /> <br /> They mimic [[weaver ant]]s, their preferred prey.&lt;ref name=Simo1885 /&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Species==<br /> {{as of|2020|06}} it contains five species, found in Africa, Asia, and Oceania:&lt;ref name=NMBE&gt;{{cite web| title=Gen. Amyciaea Simon, 1885| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-07-26| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3584| doi=10.24436/2}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Amyciaea albomaculata]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874)&lt;/small&gt; – [[Australia]], New Guinea<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Amyciaea forticeps]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)&lt;/small&gt; ([[Type_species|type]]) – [[India]], China to Malaysia<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Amyciaea hesperia]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;Simon, 1895&lt;/small&gt; – [[Sierra Leone]], Ivory Coast<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Amyciaea lineatipes]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901&lt;/small&gt; – [[Singapore]], [[Indonesia]] ([[Sumatra]])<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Amyciaea orientalis]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;Simon, 1909&lt;/small&gt; – [[Vietnam]]<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> * [[List of Thomisidae species]]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> <br /> ==Further reading==<br /> *{{cite journal| last=Sen| first=S.| display-authors=etal| year=2015| title=Spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of Reserve Forests of Dooars: Gorumara National Park, Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary and Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary| journal=World Scientific News| pages=1–339| volume=20}}<br /> *{{cite journal| last=Sunil Jose| first=K.| display-authors=etal| year=2003| title=Description of female &#039;&#039;Amyciaea forticeps&#039;&#039; (Cambridge), Araneae: Thomisidae, with a redescription of its male from Kerala, India| journal=Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society| pages=157–160| volume=100}}<br /> *{{cite book| last=Song| first=D. X.| last2=Zhu| first2=M. S.| last3=Chen| first3=J.| year=1999| title=The spiders of China| publisher=Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang| pages=640}}<br /> *{{cite book| last=Song| first=D. X.| last2=Zhu| first2=M. S.| year=1997| title=Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Thomisidae, Philodromidae| publisher=Science Press, Beijing| pages=259}}<br /> *{{cite journal| last=Tang| first=L. R.| last2=Song| first2=D. X.| year=1988| title=New records of spiders of the family Thomisidae from China (Araneae)| journal=Sichuan Journal of Zoology| pages=13–15| volume=7| issue=3}}<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> * [http://www.americanarachnology.org/HiResGallery/dionyc_Amyciaea_albomaculata.html Picture of &#039;&#039;A. albomaculata&#039;&#039;]<br /> <br /> {{Taxonbar| from=Q660048}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Araneomorphae genera]]<br /> [[Category:Spiders of Africa]]<br /> [[Category:Spiders of Asia]]<br /> [[Category:Spiders of Australia]]<br /> [[Category:Thomisidae]]</div> >Sesamehoneytart