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Agorius

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Agorius
Male Agorius sp. in Singapore
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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

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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.[2]

History

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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

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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

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Agorius constrictus

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

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "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. Bibcode:2014ZooK..440...57M. doi:10.3897/zookeys.440.7891. ISSN 1313-2970. PMID 25317062.
  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. ^ a b 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.

Further reading

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  • Edmunds, M. & Prószynski, J. (2001): New species of Malaysian Agorius and Sobasina (Araneae: Salticidae). Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc. 12: 139-143.
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