Bucranium (spider)
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| Bucranium taurifrons O. P-Cambridge, 1881 |
Bucranium is a genus of ant-mimicking crab spiders from South America with only one species.
Like the crab spider Aphantochilus, it mimic ants of the genus Cephalotes (probably C. atratus), which are their preferred prey. It also carries dead ants.
[edit] Species
- Bucranium taurifrons O. P.-Cambridge, 1881 (Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay)
[edit] Name
tauros means "bull" in Greek, frons is Latin for "front".
