Biology:Agorius
| Agorius | |
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| Male Agorius sp. in Singapore | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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
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| 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.[citation needed]
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.[2] Undescribed species have been found in Malaysia and Sabah.[3] Several more species have been found but not yet described.[4]
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.[3]
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Gen. Agorius Thorell, 1877", World Spider Catalog (Natural History Museum Bern), http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2482, retrieved 25 April 2017
- ↑ Szűts, T. (2003). "New species of Agorius Thorell, 1877 (Araneae: Salticidae) from New Guinea". Acta Zoologica Hungarica 49 (1): 61–69. Archived from the original on 2007-03-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20070316064234/http://www.pedozoologia.net/PDF/Szuts2003a_ACTAZOOL.pdf.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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". http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/agorius/agor-rem.htm. 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
Wikidata ☰ Q238294 entry
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