Orsima

Orsima is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1901.[2] As of August 2019 it contains only three species, found only in Africa, Indonesia, and Malaysia: O. constricta, O. ichneumon, and O. thaleri.[1] O. ichneumon was considered a Polyrhachis ant mimic in reverse, but this theory was later dismissed.[3]

Orsima
Male Orsima ichneumon in Malaysia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Orsima
Simon, 1901[1]
Type species
O. constricta
Simon, 1901
Species

References

  1. "Gen. Orsima Simon, 1901". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
  2. Simon, E. (1901). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae (suite)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 45: 141–161.
  3. Edmunds, Malcolm (2006). "Do Malaysian Myrmarachne associate with particular species of ant?". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 88: 645–653. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00649.x.


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