Biology:Bucranium taurifrons
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Short description: Species of spider
Bucranium taurifrons | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Thomisidae |
Genus: | Bucranium |
Species: | B. taurifrons
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Binomial name | |
Bucranium taurifrons O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881[1]
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Bucranium taurifrons is a species of ant-mimicking crab spiders from South America. It is found in Venezuela, Guyana, Peru, Brazil and Paraguay.[1]
Like the crab spider Aphantochilus, it mimic ants of the genus Cephalotes (probably C. atratus), which are their preferred prey. It also carries dead ants.[citation needed]
Name
Tauros means "bull" in Greek, frons is Latin for "front".[citation needed]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Taxon details Bucranium taurifrons (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881)", World Spider Catalog (Natural History Museum Bern), http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/species/40518, retrieved 2016-02-25
Wikidata ☰ Q1306796 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucranium taurifrons.
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