Taxon details

Family: Salticidae / Genus: Myrmarachne

Myrmarachne cowani (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-02-04
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034758]
  • Distribution: Madagascar
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; f (N.B.: published as lectotpye, but there is no evidence, that the original description was based on more than 1f) (Wanless, 1978a)
Taxonomic references
Iola cowanii Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 75, pl. 6, f. 3 (Df).
Salticus augustus Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 24, pl. 1, f. 5a-c (m, variety of augustus; misidentified per Wanless, 1978a: 73).
Myrmarachne cowani Simon, 1901a: 503.
Myrmarachne cowanii Wanless, 1978a: 73, f. 44A-E, 45A-G (mf).
References

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1892). Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(1): 1-84, pl. 1-7. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1978a). A revision of the spider genera Belippo and Myrmarachne (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 33(1): 1-139. doi:10.5962/p.28732 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

Metzner, H. (2019). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2016). Monograph of Salticidae (Araneae) of the World 1995-2015. Part II. Global Species Database of Salticidae (Araneae). Version October 30th, 2016, online at http://www.salticidae.pl. download pdf

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2022-02-04 New taxonomic reference entry Peckham & Peckham, 1892 n/a