Kerengga Ant Jumper
The male and female share several characteristics: a highly elevated cephalic region raising almost vertically from the thoracic region, a long pedicel, a long abdomen constricted in the middle, the reddish-orange colouration similar to the common red weaver "kerengga" ants (Oecophylla) which the female mimics. They are also notable by their sheer size (> 6 mm in length, longer if the highly elongated male chelicerae are included in the measurement).
The extraordinarily extended chelicerae of the males are swollen at the apex, each with a pointed projection and a black dot below.
| Length | ♀ 6–7 mm; ♂ 9–12 mm, including chelicerae |
| Type Locality | Sri Lanka |
| Distribution | Singapore, Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia), Thailand, China, Sri Lanka. |
| Habitat | Foliage in gardens, parkland and edges of secondary forests. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Suborder Araneomorphae (Typical Spiders)
Salticus plataleoides (Original description ♂)
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869c Descriptions and sketches of some new species of Araneida, with characters of a new genus: 68, pl. 6, f. 61-65 doi:10.1080/00222936908695878
Salticus plataleoides (♂)
Peckham & Peckham, 1892 Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae: 33, pl. 3, f. 1
Myrmarachne plataleoides (♂)
Simon, 1901a Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second: 499, f. 586, 590-592 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973
Myrmarachne plataleoides (♂, D♀)
Szombathy, 1913 Adatok a hangyantánzó ugrópókok pontosabb ismeretéhez: 23, f. 1-6
Myrmarachne plataleoides (♂)
Bhattacharya, 1937 Notes on the moulting process of the spider (Myrmarachne plataleoides, Camb: 426, f. 3
Myrmarachne daitarensis (Original description ♂♀)
Prószyński, 1992b Salticidae (Araneae) of India in the collection of the Hungarian National Natural History Museum in Budapest: 185, f. 80-81, 83-89
Myrmarachne plataleoides (♂♀)
Peng et al., 1993 Salticids in China (Arachnida: Araneae): 140, f. 479-488
Myrmarachne megachelae (Original description ♂)
Ganesh Kumar & Mohanasundaram, 1998 A new species of ant-like spider from cotton fields of Tamil Nadu (Araneae: Salticidae): 27, 5 unnumbered f.
Myrmarachne plataleoides (♂♀)
Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999 The spiders of China: 536, f. 305G, S
Myrmarachne plataleoides (♂, Synonym of Myrmarachne daitarensis)
Edmunds & Prószyński, 2003 On a collection of Myrmarachne spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from peninsular Malaya: 298, f. 1-7
Myrmarachne plataleoides (♂♀)
Edwards & Benjamin, 2009 A first look at the phylogeny of the Myrmarachninae, with rediscovery and redescription of the type species of Myrmarachne (Araneae: Salticidae): 16, f. 7 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2309.1.1
Myrmarachne plataleoides (♂♀)
Yamasaki, 2015 [Studies on taxonomy, biogeography and mimicry of the genus Myrmarachne in Southeast Asia]: 55, f. 17-18 doi:10.2476/asjaa.64.49
Myrmarachne plataleoides (♀)
Sen et al., 2015 Spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of reserve forests of Dooars: Gorumara National Park, Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary and Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary: 42, f. 147-151, pl. 14
Myrmarachne plataleoides (♂ habitus)
Hill & Otto, 2015 Exasperating taxonomy of the colourful ant-mimic Myrmarachne exasperans (Araneae: Salticidae: Astioida: Myrmarachinae [sic]): 3, f. 2.1
Myrmarachne plataleoides (♂♀)
Benjamin, 2015b Model mimics: antlike jumping spiders of the genus Myrmarachne from Sri Lanka: 2646, f. 29A-D, 30A-D, 31A-E doi:10.1080/00222933.2015.1034209
Myrmarachne plataleoides (♂)
Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2016 A treatise on the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of tea ecosystem of Dooars, West Bengal, India: 25, f. 21A-G, 26A, 28A-C
Myrmaplata plataleoides (♂♀, Transferred from Myrmarachne)
Prószyński, 2016 Delimitation and description of 19 new genera, a subgenus and a species of Salticidae (Araneae) of the world: 10, f. 1E-F, 2G, 3H doi:10.37828/em.2016.7.1
Myrmarachne plataleoides (♂♀)
Caleb, 2016c Taxonomic notes on some ant-mimicking jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from India: 411, f. 31-54 doi:10.15298/arthsel.25.4.09
Myrmaplata plataleoides (♀)
Prószyński, 2018b Review of genera Evarcha and Nigorella, with comments on Emertonius, Padilothorax [sic], Stagetillus, and description of five new genera and two new species (Araneae: Salticidae): 165, f. 22F doi:10.37828/em.2018.16.12
Myrmarachne plataleoides (♂♀)
Peng, 2020 Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 53, Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae: 250, f. 174a-j
Myrmaplata plataleoides (Synonym of Myrmarachne megachelae)
Caleb, 2020b Spider (Arachnida: Araneae) fauna of the scrub jungle in the Madras Christian College campus, Chennai, India: 15737 doi:10.11609/jott.5758.12.7.15711-15766
* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.
Singapore, Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia), Thailand, China, Sri Lanka.