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Approximately 2cm long mostly black with a black and cream banded abdomen.
Rainforest.
Spotted on Mar 3, 2012
Submitted on Feb 3, 2014
2 Comments
Thankyou Bayucca ,for your ideas ,I shall follow up on those leads.
There are several spider which mimic ants, but I am not sure if this common name is reserved for a special family. I am not very familiar with spiders, but there are some jumping spiders, Salticidae, which aremimicking spiders and I know the Corinnidae from the Americas.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/529780/bgi...
Or Zodariidae, which are sometimes also called ant-mimic ground spiders:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodariid_gr...
From the shape of yours I would at first sight think that it is not a Salticidae, but I might be wrong. Just a few hints...
Maybe Doc Atul or Chun can help you more.