Bocus

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Bocus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Myrmarachninae
Tribe: Myrmarachnini
Genus: Bocus
Peckham & Peckham, 1892
Diversity
3 species
Type species
Bocus excelsus
Peckham & Peckham, 1892
Species

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Bocus is a genus of jumping spiders with three described species. They occur in the Philippines and Borneo and are indistinguishable from the related genus Myrmarachne without the help of a microscope[1].

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[edit] Species

  • Bocus angusticollis Deeleman-Reinhold & Floren, 2003Borneo
  • Bocus excelsus Peckham & Peckham, 1892Philippines
  • Bocus philippinensis Wanless, 1978 — Philippines

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Murphy & Murphy 2000: 304

[edit] References

  • Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
  • Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.

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