Mexcala elegans

Mexcala elegans is a species of spiders in the jumping spider family, Salticidae. It is found in Southern Africa. It is preying on ants.[2]

Mexcala elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Mexcala
Species:
M. elegans
Binomial name
Mexcala elegans

References

  1. New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian region. GW Peckham, EG Peckham - Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences …, 1903
  2. Trophic strategy of ant-eating Mexcala elegans (Araneae: Salticidae): looking for evidence of evolution of prey-specialization. Stano Pekár and Charles Haddad, Journal of Arachnology, 39(1), pages 133-138, 2011, doi:10.1636/Hi10-56.1


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