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. |
| Habitat | Leaf litter in secondary forests, occasionally on foliage near ground. |
| Type Locality | Genting Forest, Pahang, Malaysia. |
| Distribution | Malaysia (Pahang, Selangor), Singapore. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Suborder Araneomorphae (Typical Spiders)
Myrmarachne wanlessi (Original description ♂)
Edmunds & Prószyński, 2003 On a collection of Myrmarachne spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from peninsular Malaya: 315, f. 80-100
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
Malaysia (Pahang, Selangor), Singapore.