Orsima
Appearance
Orsima | |
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Male Orsima ichneumon in Malaysia | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Subfamily: | Salticinae |
Genus: | Orsima Simon, 1901[1] |
Type species | |
O. constricta Simon, 1901
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Species | |
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Orsima is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1901.[2] As of August 2019[update] it contains only three species, found only in Africa, Indonesia, and Malaysia: O. constricta, O. ichneumon, and O. thaleri.[1] O. ichneumon was considered a Polyrhachis ant mimic in reverse, but this theory was later dismissed.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Orsima Simon, 1901". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
- ^ Simon, E. (1901). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae (suite)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 45: 141–161.
- ^ Edmunds, Malcolm (2006). "Do Malaysian Myrmarachne associate with particular species of ant?". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 88 (4): 645–653. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00649.x.