Ligonipes
| Ligonipes | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Subkingdom: | Eumetazoa |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Section: | Dionycha |
| Superfamily: | Salticoidea |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmarachninae |
| Genus: | Ligonipes Karsch, 1878 |
| Type species | |
| Ligonipes illustris Karsch, 1878 | |
| Species | |
|
see text | |
| Diversity | |
| 6 species | |
Ligonipes is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). The six described species are found in the Australian region. Their body form mimics ants.
L. semitectus is a very common spider in Queensland, Australia. Males are 4 mm long, females 5 mm.
There has been no information about L. similis (formerly in genus Rhombonotus) since its original description in 1882.[1]
Species
- Ligonipes flavipes Rainbow, 1920 — Norfolk Island
- Ligonipes illustris Karsch, 1878 — Queensland
- Ligonipes lacertosus (Thorell, 1881) — Queensland
- Ligonipes semitectus (Simon, 1900) — Queensland
- Ligonipes similis (Hasselt, 1882) — Sumatra
- Ligonipes synageloides (Szombathy, 1915) — New Guinea
Footnotes
- ↑ Murphy & Murphy 2000: 272
References
- Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
- Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.
- Find-a-Spider: Ligonipes semitectus
Further reading
- Richardson, B.J.; Zabka, M.; Gray, M.R. & Milledge, G. (2006): Distributional patterns of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in Australia. Journal of Biogeography 33(4): 707-719. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01405.x
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