
Figure 2. Ant-mimicking jumping spiders observed during our sampling of castor plants across India (associated ant species, or hypothetical models, in parentheses). A, Myrmarachne melanocephala female (Tetraponera rufonigra), Ramnagar. B, ♀ Myrmarachne sp. (Camponotus sericeus), Kanyakumari. C, ♀ Myrmaplata plataleoides (Oecophylla smaragdina), Hampi. D, J Myrmarachne kuwagata (Camponotus compressus), Aligarh. E, ♀ Myrmarachne sp. (Crematogaster sp.), Srirangam. F, ♀ Myrmarachne kuwagata female drinking nectar from an extrafloral nectary on a castor plant, Ricinus communis, Gwalior. Photographs by Pooja Nathan.
Published as part of Nathan, Pooja, Datta, Anoushka, Shahid, Arshyaan & Frederickson, Megan E., 2023, Where there are ants, there are ant mimics: occurrence of jumping spiders that mimic ants on the castor plant across India, pp. 1-8 in Peckhamia 297 (1) on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10831679
Biodiversity, Taxonomy
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