Agorius

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Agorius
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Male Agorius sp. in Singapore
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Agorius
Thorell, 1877 [1]
Type species
Agorius gracilipes
Thorell, 1877
Species

See text

Diversity
12 species

Agorius is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). [1] The genera Agorius and Synagelides (and perhaps Pseudosynagelides ) are separated as a genus group, sometimes called subfamily Agoriinae but more recently downranked to tribe Agoriini of the Salticoida clade in subfamily Salticinae. [2]

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History

Agorius was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1877. [1] No new species were described for about one hundred years, with seven new species found in the twenty-first century. [3] Undescribed species have been found in Malaysia and Sabah. [4] Several more species have been found but not yet described. [5]

Description

Both sexes are about six to eight mm long. Agorius is similar to Myrmarachne , another good ant mimic, but can be distinguished from it by having no large, forward-pointing chelicerae, and is not found on vegetation above the ground, but only in rain forest leaf litter. [4]

A. borneensis, A. formicinus, A. saaristoi and A. semirufus are only known from male specimens; A. cinctus, A. gracilipes and A. marieae are only known from a female. [1]

Species

Agorius constrictus Agorius.constrictus.simon.svg
Agorius constrictus

As of April 2017, the World Spider Catalog accepts 12 species in the genus: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Gen. Agorius Thorell, 1877", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 25 April 2017
  2. Maddison, Wayne; Li, Daiqin; Bodner, Melissa; Zhang, Junxia; Xin, Xu; Liu, Qinqing; Liu, Fengxiang (2014-09-15). "The deep phylogeny of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae)". ZooKeys. 440. Pensoft Publishers: 57–87. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.440.7891 . ISSN   1313-2970.
  3. Szűts, T. (2003). "New species of Agorius Thorell, 1877 (Araneae: Salticidae) from New Guinea" (PDF). Acta Zoologica Hungarica. 49 (1): 61–69. Archived from the original on 2007-03-16.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. 1 2 Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society. p. 303.
  5. Proszynski, J. (1997). "Genus Agorius - Provisional Notes". Salticidae: Diagnostic Drawings Library. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2017.

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