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Myrmecium viehmeyeri

Myrmecium viehmeyeri

Classification

Order
Araneae

Myrmecium is a genus of ant-mimicking corinnid sac spiders first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1824. The unrelated jumping spider species Synemosyna formica has been mistaken for a member of this genus twice, once by Eugène Simon in 1897 (Myrmecium lunatum) and once by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1932 (Myrmecium rubrum). Species As of April 2019 it contains thirty-nine species in South America and the Caribbean: Myrmecium amphora Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 – Venezuela Myrmecium bifasciatum Taczanowski, 1874 – Bolivia, Trinidad, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru · 2