''Agorius constrictus'' is a species of
ant mimicking jumping spider from
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...
.
Description
Both sexes are about 6 mm long. The orange-brown
cephalothorax
The cephalothorax, also called prosoma in some groups, is a tagma of various arthropods, comprising the head and the thorax fused together, as distinct from the abdomen behind. (The terms ''prosoma'' and ''opisthosoma'' are equivalent to ''cepha ...
is about twice as long as wide, with its posterior edge forming a transverse depression behind the rear eyes. The very long
opisthosoma
The opisthosoma is the posterior part of the body in some arthropods, behind the prosoma (cephalothorax). It is a distinctive feature of the subphylum Chelicerata (arachnids, horseshoe crabs and others). Although it is similar in most respects to a ...
mimics the shape of certain ants, with a small dark oval anterior part, a slender whitish "waist" and a large dark oval posterior part. The long slender legs are lightish orange.
[Murphy & Murphy 2000: 303]
References
* (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. ''Malaysian Nature Society'', Kuala Lumpur.
* (2007)
The world spider catalog version 8.0. ''American Museum of Natural History''.
External links
* Salticidae.org
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Salticidae
Endemic fauna of Singapore
Spiders of Asia
Spiders described in 1901
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