Taxon details

Family: Corinnidae / Genus: Myrmecium

Myrmecium rufum Latreille, 1824

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-05-31
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025361]
  • Distribution: Brazil
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Myrmecium mendax Mello-Leitão, 1923, (00739); 1 m (probably destroyed by the fire 2018)
  • Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Myrmecia xanthopus C. L. Koch, 1842, (2003)
  • Syntype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Myrmecium itatiaiae Mello-Leitão, 1932, (14064); 1 m 1 f (survived the fire 2018)
Taxonomic references
Myrmecium rufum Latreille, 1824: 27, pl. 2, f. 1-8 (Df).
Myrmidea rufa Dalman, 1826: 59.
Myrmecia fulva Walckenaer, 1837: 385 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058234].
Myrmecia vertebrata Walckenaer, 1837: 386 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025363].
Myrmecia fulva Walckenaer, 1841: 461, pl. 9, f. 2 (f).
Myrmecia xanthopus C. L. Koch, 1841a: 12, f. 699 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058236].
Myrmecia vertebrata C. L. Koch, 1841a: 13, f. 700 (Dm).
Myrmecia vertebrata Lucas, 1857c: 16, pl. 1, f. 2a-c.
Myrmecia vertebrata Keyserling, 1891: 78, pl. 11, f. 45 (mf, S of Myrmecia xanthopus).
Myrmecium rufum Simon, 1897a: 176, f. 165-166, 173 (f).
Myrmecium mendax Mello-Leitão, 1924c: 11 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058235].
Myrmecium itatiaiae Mello-Leitão, 1932b: 157, f. 8-9, 11-12 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025356].
Myrmecium rufum Mello-Leitão, 1932b: 154, f. 1-3 (mf, S of Myrmecium fulvum and M. mendax).
Myrmecium vertebratum Mello-Leitão, 1932b: 155, f. 4 (f).
Myrmecium rufum Camargo, 1953: 330, f. 27, 29-30, 41 (mf).
Myrmecium itatiaiae Marusik, Omelko & Koponen, 2015c: 298, f. 9, 11 (m).
Myrmecium rufum Marusik, Omelko & Koponen, 2015c: 298, f. 10, 12-13 (mf).
Myrmecium rufum Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017: 14, f. 1-6, 14-29 (mf, S of Myrmecium itatiaiae and M. vertebratum).
References

Camargo, H. F. de A. (1953). Sobre algumas aranhas que ocorrem no Brasil, com descrição de um alótipo (Arachnida-Araneae). Papéis Avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia, Secretaria de Agricultura, Sao Paolo 11: 301-340. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Candiani, D. F. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2017). The superficial ant: a revision of the Neotropical ant-mimicking spider genus Myrmecium Latreille, 1824 (Araneae, Corinnidae, Castianeirinae). Zootaxa 4230(1): 1-95. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4230.1.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dalman, J. W. (1826). Årsberättelse om nyare zoologiska arbeten och upptäker, till Kongl. Vetenskaps-Academien afgiven den 31 Mars 1826. Stockholm, pp. 1-115 (Araneae, p. 59). download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1891). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Brasilianische Spinnen. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 3, 1-278. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1841a). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Achter Band, pp. 41-131, pl. 265-288 (f. 621-694); Neunter Band, pp. 1-56, pl. 289-306 (f. 695-726). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Latreille, P. A. (1824). Notice sur un nouveau genre d'Aranéides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Paris 3: 23-27. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lucas, H. (1857c). Arachnides. In: de Castelnau, F. (ed.) Expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amerique du Sud…. Paris vol. 3(7), 14-23. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M., Omelko, M. M. & Koponen, S. (2015c). A redescription of the ant mimicking spider Myrmecium gounellei (Araneae: Corinnidae, Castianeirinae), with notes on the genus. Zootaxa 3985(2): 296-300. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3985.2.9 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1932b). Notas sobre o genero Myrmecium. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 4: 149-160. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1924c). Novo Myrmecium do Brasil. Boletim da Sociedade Entomológica do Brasil 1923(4-6): 11-12. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1897a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-192. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Tome premier. Roret, Paris, 682 pp., pl. 1-15. [plates in second pdf] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1841). Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Tome deuxième. Roret, Paris, 549 pp., pl. 16-22. [not published in 1837, see pp. 430, 452, 505; plates in second pdf of Walckenaer, 1837] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2017-02-09 New taxonomic reference entry Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 n/a
2017-02-09 Species synonymy Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 Myrmecium vertebratum synonymized with Myrmecium rufum
2017-02-09 Species synonymy Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017 Myrmecium itatiaiae synonymized with Myrmecium rufum
2015-07-22 New taxonomic reference entry Marusik, Omelko & Koponen, 2015c n/a