A new genus of jumping spider from the Bolivian Yungas forest, a new country record for Erica eugenia Peckham & Peckham, 1892, and notes on turtle ant mimicry (Araneae: Salticidae: Simonellini)

Robert Perger; Gonzalo D. Rubio

doi:10.13156/arac.2022.19.2.574

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Robert Perger,¹ Gonzalo D. Rubio²

¹Colección Boliviana de Fauna, La Paz, Bolivia email: robertperger@hotmail.com
²National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET), Experimental Station of Agriculture (EEA-INTA), R 14, Km 836, Cerro Azul, Misiones, Argentina email: gonzalodrubio@gmail.com

Abstract

A new genus and species of the ant-resembling jumping spider tribe Simonellini, Flurica sikimira gen. et sp. nov., from the Yungas mountain forest in the Bolivian Andes is described. Erica eugenia Peckham & Peckham, 1892 is recorded from Bolivia for the first time. Adults of both species are possibly mimics of the turtle ant Cephalotes pusillus (Klug, 1824). Juveniles of E. eugenia resemble workers of black Crematogaster ants, indicating transformational mimicry.

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Robert Perger and Gonzalo D. Rubio "A new genus of jumping spider from the Bolivian Yungas forest, a new country record for Erica eugenia Peckham & Peckham, 1892, and notes on turtle ant mimicry (Araneae: Salticidae: Simonellini)," Arachnology 19(2), 574-579, (25 July 2022). https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2022.19.2.574

Published: 25 July 2022

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