Agorius
| Agorius | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Male Agorius sp. in Singapore | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | 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]
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
As of April 2017, the World Spider Catalog accepts 12 species in the genus:[1]
- Agorius baloghi Szüts, 2003 – New Guinea, New Britain
- Agorius borneensis Edmunds & Prószyński, 2001 – Borneo
- Agorius cinctus Simon, 1901 – Java, Lombok
- Agorius constrictus Simon, 1901 – Malaysia, Singapore
- Agorius formicinus Simon, 1903 – Sumatra
- Agorius gracilipes Thorell, 1877 – Sulawesi
- Agorius kerinci Prószyński, 2009 – Sumatra
- Agorius lindu Prószyński, 2009 – Sulawesi
- Agorius marieae Freudenschuss & Seiter, 2016 – Philippines
- Agorius saaristoi Prószyński, 2009 – Borneo
- Agorius semirufus Simon, 1901 – Philippines
- Agorius tortilis Cao & Li, 2016 – China
References
- ^ a b c d e "Gen. Agorius Thorell, 1877", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 25 April 2017
- ^ 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. Bibcode:2014ZooK..440...57M. doi:10.3897/zookeys.440.7891. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 4195940. PMID 25317062.
- ^ 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) - ^ a b Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society. p. 303.
- ^ Proszynski, J. (1997). "Genus Agorius - Provisional Notes". Salticidae: Diagnostic Drawings Library. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
Further reading
- Edmunds, M. & Prószynski, J. (2001): New species of Malaysian Agorius and Sobasina (Araneae: Salticidae). Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc. 12: 139-143.
External links
- Salticidae.org: Diagnostic drawings and photographs