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Myrmarachne sp.
Its hard to identify whether this fellow a spider or an ant by first sight. if look closer we can see that he is waving its front pair of legs as the antenna of an ant, any way male spider is easy to identify because of his long chelicerae but female spider without them are very much similar to the ant that they use to mimic , Weaver ant in morphology.
I first got to know about this spider by a PDF sent to me by Adarsha , a Project NOAH friend, Thanks Adi......
Spotted on Nov 10, 2013
Submitted on Nov 12, 2013
9 Comments
Thanks a lot Dilan ..............
Great spotting Bhagya!!
Thanks a lot ismael1 and josefina1
Thanks Adi ... I got to know about this mimicry by you .... thanks again.....
Oh..supercool..You also got him :)
Thank you so much Lauren .... sure il do it next time ....
Wonderful! If you see it again could you get a video? It would be neat to see it acting like an ant. Wish we had those here!
Thanks a lot Cha....
Awesome story......thanx a lot my freinds Bhagi and Adi!