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Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Myrmarachne  Mac Leay, 1839   5 species

Myrmarachne formicaria  (De Geer, 1778)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034782

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Description

Embolus very fine, forming a double loop around bulbus. Epigyne with large, white, triangular area. Prosoma constricted, with elevated eye region.

Body length male: 5.0-6.5 mm
Body length female: 4.75-6.1 mm
Additional information

Ant-like species, in very different habitats, co-occurrence with ants not sure

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2020): Macaronesia, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe, Caucasus, Far East), Iran, China, Korea, Japan. Introduced to USA
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1967)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pesarini unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Locket & Millidge 1951)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wiehle 1967)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Prószyński 1991)

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male Pedipalp
(Roberts 1998)

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male Pedipalp
(Zabka 1997)

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male Tibial apophysis
(Locket & Millidge 1951)

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male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Locket & Millidge 1951)

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male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Wiehle 1967)

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male Chelicera, ventral view
(Logunov & Wesolowska 1992)

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male Fang, ventro-lateral view
(Logunov & Wesolowska 1992)

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male Habitus
(Locket & Millidge 1951)

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male Habitus
(Zabka 1997)

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male Habitus
(C. L. Koch 1846)

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male Habitus, subadult
(C. L. Koch 1846)

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female Epigyne
(Roberts 1998)

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female Epigyne
(Wiehle 1967)

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female Epigyne
(Zabka 1997)

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female Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1951)

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female Vulva
(Wiehle 1967)

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female Vulva
(Zabka 1997)

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female Habitus
(Wiehle 1967)

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female Habitus
(Locket & Millidge 1951)

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Sternum
(Locket & Millidge 1951)

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Habitus
(Koh unpubl.)

Distribution List
Armenia   ( Otto, 2020; ) ||| Austria   ( no references ) ||| Azerbaijan   ( Otto, 2020; ) ||| Belarus   ( no references ) ||| Belgium   ( no references ) ||| Bosnia and Herzegovina   ( no references ) ||| Bulgaria   ( Blagoev et al., 2018; ) ||| Croatia   ( no references ) ||| Czechia   ( no references ) ||| Finland   ( Koponen et al., 2016; ) ||| France   ( no references ) ||| France / Corsica   ( no references ) ||| Georgia   ( Otto, 2020; ) ||| Germany   ( no references ) ||| Greece   ( no references ) ||| Greece / Crete   ( no references ) ||| Hungary   ( no references ) ||| Italy   ( Pantini & Isaia, 2019; ) ||| Italy / Sardinia   ( Pantini & Isaia, 2019; ) ||| Italy / Sicily   ( Pantini & Isaia, 2019; ) ||| Latvia   ( Cera, 2018; ) ||| Liechtenstein   ( no references ) ||| Luxembourg   ( no references ) ||| Moldova   ( no references ) ||| Montenegro   ( no references ) ||| Netherlands   ( no references ) ||| North Macedonia   ( no references ) ||| Norway   ( no references ) ||| Poland   ( no references ) ||| Portugal   ( no references ) ||| Romania   ( no references ) ||| Russia, Central   ( no references ) ||| Russia, Southern   ( Otto, 2020; ) ||| Serbia   ( no references ) ||| Slovakia   ( no references ) ||| Slovenia   ( Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015; ) ||| Spain   ( no references ) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   ( no references ) ||| Sweden   ( no references ) ||| Switzerland   ( no references ) ||| Turkey (Asia)   ( Danışman et al., 2019; ) ||| Turkey (Europe)   ( Danışman et al., 2019; ) ||| Ukraine   ( Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019; ) ||| United Kingdom   ( no references ) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018)

Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2019) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2019 [last updated 1 June 2019], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info

Helsdingen P J van (2010a) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org

Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311 pdf

Koch C L (1846) Die Arachniden. Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band, pp. 1-234, Vierzehnter Band, pp. 1-88

Koh J K H (unpubl.)

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1951) British Spiders 1. Ray Soc London

Logunov D V, Wesolowska W (1992) The jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) of Khabarovsk Province (Russian Far East). Ann Zool Fenn 29: 113-146

Otto S (2020) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 03.2020. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online Catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other Arachnid Orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). http://araneae.it. Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Pesarini C (unpubl.)

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

Prószyński J (1991) in Heimer S, Nentwig W: Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Parey Hamburg

Roberts M J (1998) Spinnengids. Tirion Natuur Baarn, Netherlands

Wiehle H (1967) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der deutschen Spinnenfauna V. Senckenbergiana Biologica 48: 1-36

World Spider Catalog (2020) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.03.2020) doi: 10.24436/2

Zabka M (1997) Salticidae: Pajaki skaczace (Arachnida: Araneae) (Salticidae of Poland). Fauna Polski (Fauna Poloniae) 19: 1-188

Updates
15-01-2015 Image insert
28-04-2014 Distribution update Detail