Myrmecium is a genus of ant-mimicking corinnid sac spiders first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1824. The unrelated jumping spider species Synemosyna formica has been mistaken for a member of this genus twice, once by Eugène Simon in 1897 (Myrmecium lunatum) and once by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1932 (Myrmecium rubrum).
Species
it contains thirty-nine species in South America and the Caribbean:
- Myrmecium amphora <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Venezuela
- Myrmecium bifasciatum <small>Taczanowski, 1874</small> â Bolivia, Trinidad, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil
- Myrmecium bolivari <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Venezuela, Colombia
- Myrmecium bonaerense <small>Holmberg, 1881</small> â Argentina
- Myrmecium camponotoides <small>Mello-Leitão, 1932</small> â Brazil
- Myrmecium carajas <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Brazil
- Myrmecium carvalhoi <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Brazil
- Myrmecium catuxy <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Colombia, Brazil
- Myrmecium chikish <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Peru
- Myrmecium cizauskasi <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Brazil
- Myrmecium dacetoniforme <small>Mello-Leitão, 1932</small> â Brazil
- Myrmecium deladanta <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Ecuador
- Myrmecium diasi <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Brazil
- Myrmecium erici <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Guyana
- Myrmecium ferro <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Brazil
- Myrmecium fuscum <small>Dahl, 1907</small> â Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
- Myrmecium indicattii <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Brazil
- Myrmecium latreillei <small>(Lucas, 1857)</small> â Brazil
- Myrmecium lomanhungae <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Brazil
- Myrmecium luepa <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Venezuela
- Myrmecium machetero <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Bolivia, Peru
- Myrmecium malleum <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Venezuela, Colombia
- Myrmecium monacanthum <small>Simon, 1897</small> â Colombia
- Myrmecium nogueirai <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Peru, Brazil
- Myrmecium oliveirai <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Brazil
- Myrmecium oompaloompa <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Brazil, Guyana
- Myrmecium otti <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Peru, Brazil
- Myrmecium pakpaka <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Peru
- Myrmecium raveni <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Brazil
- Myrmecium reticulatum <small>Dahl, 1907</small> â Peru
- Myrmecium ricettii <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Colombia, Brazil
- Myrmecium rufum <small>Latreille, 1824</small> (type) â Brazil
- Myrmecium souzai <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Brazil
- Myrmecium tanguro <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Brazil
- Myrmecium tikuna <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Brazil
- Myrmecium trifasciatum <small>Caporiacco, 1947</small> â Guyana, Brazil
- Myrmecium urucu <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Brazil
- Myrmecium viehmeyeri <small>Dahl, 1907</small> â Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
- Myrmecium yamamotoi <small>Candiani & Bonaldo, 2017</small> â Suriname, Brazil
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