Myrmarachne melanocephala
| Myrmarachne melanocephala | |
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| female M. melanocephala from Thailand | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Myrmarachne |
| Species: | M. melanocephala
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| Binomial name | |
| Myrmarachne melanocephala MacLeay, 1839[1]
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Myrmarachne melanocephala, is a species of spider of the genus Myrmarachne, a genus of ant-mimicking jumping spiders. It is found throughout the countries ranging from Pakistan to Indonesia.[2] Type locality has been recorded as Bengal of British India (present day West Bengal, India).[3]
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female from Thailand -
male from India
References
- ^ MacLeay, W. S. (1838). "On some new forms of Arachnida". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 2 (7): 11–12. doi:10.1080/00222933809496646. – for image, see Pl. I, fig. 4.
- ^ "Myrmarachne melanocephala MacLeay, 1839". World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
- ^ Kumar, Rahul; Sharma, Mirtunjay; Sharma, Ajay Kumar (2021). "New record of Myrmarachne melanocephala MacLeay, 1839 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Jharkhand, India and biogeographical implications of the co-occurrence of its ant model Tetraponera rufonigra Jerdon, 1851". Journal of Threatened Taxa. 13 (12): 19753–19761. doi:10.11609/jott.7500.13.12.19753-19761.