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Leptomyrmex, or spider ants, is a genus of ants and a distinctive member of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae. [2] Commonly known as "spider ants" for their long legs and spider-like movements, these orange and black ants are prominent residents of intact wet forest and sclerophyll habitats throughout their range.
They are small to medium-sized eight-eyed spiders found in all tropical and subtropical regions of South America, Africa, Madagascar, Australia-New Guinea, New Zealand, Arabia and the Indian subcontinent. [3] Most species are daytime hunters and live together with ants, mimicking their behavior and sometimes even their chemical traits. [3]
The Crematogaster ants which they mimic are often found in the nests with the spiders, along with other species of jumping spider. [2] Some predators (including larger jumping spiders) eat jumping spiders but are averse to attacking ants, as ants aggressively defend themselves. M. melanotarsa takes advantage of this aversion by mimicking the ants.
Myrmarachne is a genus of ant-mimicking jumping spiders that was first described by W. S. MacLeay in 1839. [5] They are commonly called ant-mimicking spiders, but they are not the only spiders that have this attribute. The name is a combination of Ancient Greek μύρμηξ , meaning "ant", and ἀράχνη , meaning "spider".
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Top: An ant in Mozambique Bottom: An ant-mimicking spider, Myrmarachne Ant mimicry or myrmecomorphy is mimicry of ants by other organisms; it has evolved over 70 times. Ants are abundant all over the world, and potential predators that rely on vision to identify their prey, such as birds and wasps, normally avoid them, because they are either unpalatable or aggressive.
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Joro spiders have ballooned their way to Pennsylvania just in time for the spooky Halloween season.. Six of the giant, brightly colored arachnids, first spotted in Georgia almost a decade ago ...