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Salticidae Myrmaplata

Myrmaplata wanlessi (Edmunds & Prószyński, 2003)

Wanless’ Ant Jumper

Named after the late Fred Wanless, an authority on Salticidae and former curator at the Natural History Museum in London, the male is recognised by a combination of characters, including an apically swollen chelicerae with a divided tooth at the apex. an oval abdomen, a short pedicel, a pair of palps with an unusually expanded coiled embolus. The colour of the abdomen varies from brown to black.

The female has a pair of expanded palps and a plate-like cover over the anterior half of its oval abdomen.

Length♀4–5 mm; ♂ 5–6 mm, including chelicerae
Type LocalityGenting Forest, Pahang, Malaysia
DistributionSingapore, Malaysia (Selangor, Pahang).
HabitatLeaf litter in secondary forests, occasionally on foliage near ground.

Taxonomy

Taxonomic references*

  1. Myrmarachne wanlessi (Original description ♂)

    Edmunds & Prószyński, 2003 On a collection of Myrmarachne spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from peninsular Malaya: 315, f. 80-100

  2. Myrmaplata wanlessi (Transferred from Myrmarachne)

    Prószyński, 2016 Delimitation and description of 19 new genera, a subgenus and a species of Salticidae (Araneae) of the world: 10 doi:10.37828/em.2016.7.1

* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.

Distribution Map for Myrmaplata wanlessi (Edmunds & Prószyński, 2003)

Singapore, Malaysia (Selangor, Pahang).

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