Taxon details

Family: Corinnidae / Genus: Myrmecotypus

Myrmecotypus niger Chickering, 1937

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-12-20
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025368]
  • Distribution: Panama, Bolivia, Brazil
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil; f (286, destroyed by the fire 2018) of Apochinomma formicoides (Silva-Junior & Bonaldo, 2024)
  • Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; m (Reiskind, 1969)
Taxonomic references
Myrmecotypus niger Chickering, 1937c: 35, pl. 3, f. 42, pl. 4, f. 54 (Dm).
Apochinomma formicoides Mello-Leitão, 1939h: 289, f. 6-8 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:024927].
Myrmecotypus niger Reiskind, 1969: 274, f. 241-244, 286 (m, Df).
Myrmecotypus niger Carvalho & Gasnier, 2019: CB22, f. 73-74 (m).
Myrmecotypus niger Silva-Junior & Bonaldo, 2024: 462, f. 1B, 8A-J (mf, S of Apochinomma formicoides).
References

Carvalho, T. G. de & Gasnier, T. R. J. (2019). Illustrated inventory of spiders from Amazonas state, Brazil: 94 understory species from a forest fragment in Manaus. Scientia Amazonia 8(2): CB1-CB53. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chickering, A. M. (1937c). The Clubionidae of Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 56(1): 1-47. doi:10.2307/3222720 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1939h). Aracnidos. Anexo N. 1 ao relatório da excursão científica do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz realizada na zona da E. F. N. O. B., em outubro de 1938. Boletim Biológico Sao Paulo (N.S.) 4: 281-294. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Reiskind, J. (1969). The spider subfamily Castianeirinae of North and Central America (Araneae, Clubionidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 138(5): 163-325. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Silva-Junior, C. J. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2024). A revision of the South American species of the ant-mimicking spider genus Myrmecotypus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894 (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae). Zootaxa 5555(4): 451-496. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5555.4.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-12-20 New taxonomic reference entry Silva-Junior & Bonaldo, 2024 n/a
2024-12-20 Species synonymy Silva-Junior & Bonaldo, 2024 Myrmecotypus formicoides synonymized with Myrmecotypus niger
2020-06-10 New taxonomic reference entry Carvalho & Gasnier, 2019 n/a
2020-06-10 Species distribution update Perger & Rubio, 2020a n/a (Old value)