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Amyciaea
Amyciaea
is
a genus
of
ant mimicking
crab spiders
that was first described by
Eugène Louis Simon
in 1885.
They mimic
weaver ants
, their preferred
prey
.
Species
it contains
five species
, found in
Africa
,
Asia
, and Oceania:
Amyciaea albomaculata
–
Australia
,
New Guinea
Amyciaea forticeps
–
India
,
China
to
Malaysia
Amyciaea
hesperia
Simon
,
1895
–
Sierra Leone
,
Ivory Coast
Amyciaea lineatipes
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 –
Singapore
,
Indonesia
Amyciaea
orientalis
Simon, 1909 –
Vietnam