Template:Automatic taxobox Amyciaea is a genus of ant mimicking crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1885.[1]
They mimic weaver ants, their preferred prey.[1]
Species
Template:As of it contains five species, found in Africa, Asia, and Oceania:[2]
- Amyciaea albomaculata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874) – Australia, New Guinea
- Amyciaea forticeps (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) (type) – India, China to Malaysia
- Amyciaea hesperia Simon, 1895 – Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast
- Amyciaea lineatipes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 – Singapore, Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Amyciaea orientalis Simon, 1909 – Vietnam
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matériaux pour servir à la faune arachnologiques de l'Asie méridionale. III. Arachnides recueillis en 1884 dans la presqu'île de Malacca, par M. J. Morgan. IV. Arachnides recueillis à Collegal, district de Coimbatoore, par M. A. Theobald G. R. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France({Template:Year).
- ↑ Gen. Amyciaea Simon, 1885. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern.
Further reading
- Spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of Reserve Forests of Dooars: Gorumara National Park, Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary and Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary. World Scientific News({Template:Year).
- Description of female Amyciaea forticeps (Cambridge), Araneae: Thomisidae, with a redescription of its male from Kerala, India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society({Template:Year).
- The spiders of China{{#if:Song|, Song}. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang(1999)
- Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Thomisidae, Philodromidae{{#if:Song|, Song}. Science Press, Beijing(1997)
- New records of spiders of the family Thomisidae from China (Araneae). Sichuan Journal of Zoology({Template:Year).