Amyciaea facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Amyciaea |
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| Amyciaea lineatipes | |
Scientific classification  |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Thomisidae |
| Genus: | Amyciaea Simon, 1885 |
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| A. forticeps (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)
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Amyciaea is a genus of ant mimicking crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1885.
They mimic weaver ants, their preferred prey.
Species
As of June 2020[update] it contains five species, found in Africa, Asia, and Oceania:
- Amyciaea albomaculata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874) – Australia, New Guinea
- Amyciaea forticeps (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) (type) – India, China to Malaysia
- Amyciaea hesperia Simon, 1895 – Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast
- Amyciaea lineatipes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 – Singapore, Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Amyciaea orientalis Simon, 1909 – Vietnam
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