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Myrmarachne Sp.
A Black Ant-Mimicking Jumping spider. Size: about 4-5mm. Short jaw. Glossy black abdomen. Feeding on a mayfly probably.
Botanical area at Jahangirnagar University. Tropical area.
An absolutely fantastic mimic. Really hard to spot.
Spotted on Sep 10, 2011
Submitted on Sep 10, 2011
10 Comments
Its ok ChunXingWong.. :-)
Oops, sorry, didn't notice the location is actually north of India.
superb series !
Actually my collection is from Bangladesh. Exactly, at first I also thought it was feeding on a mosquito or mayfly nymph.. But it was hard to be exact..
Fantastic collections of spiders you've got there in India.
The prey it is feeding on is an insect from the Diptera insect order.
Probably a midge from the Culicomorpha infraorder.
Thanks for the appreciation!
Wow - very cool!! These are amazing!
@Greg - we have some interesting ant mimics in Ohio too! See http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/636... and http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/705... - both spottings of the weird and wonderful Synemosyna formica - for starters.
They don't grow these in Ohio - too bad!
Thanks mate!
Fantastic series again.