''Bocus'' is a
genus of
Southeast Asian
jumping spiders
Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. Jumping ...
that was first described by
George Peckham
George "Porky" Peckham (born 1942, Blackburn, Lancashire) is an English record engineer, widely recognised as among the most accomplished in the business. He has been responsible for producing the master discs from which many vinyl records have ...
&
Elizabeth Peckham in 1892.
, it contains only three species, which are found only in the
Philippines and
Indonesia: ''
B. angusticollis'', ''
B. excelsus'', and ''
B. philippinensis''.
They are indistinguishable from the related genus ''
Myrmarachne'' without the help of a
microscope.
References
External links
* Salticidae.org
Diagnostic drawings and photographs with mimicked ant species
Salticidae genera
Salticidae
Spiders of Asia
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