Agorius

{{Automatic taxobox

|taxon = Agorius

|image = SGM05-3105 Agorius male.jpg

|image_caption = Male Agorius sp. in Singapore

|authority = Thorell, 1877

|diversity = 12 species

|diversity_link =

|type_species = Agorius gracilipes

|type_species_authority = Thorell, 1877

|subdivision = See text

|subdivision_ranks = Species

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Agorius is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). The genera Agorius and Synagelides (and perhaps Pseudosynagelides) are separated as a genus group, sometimes called subfamily Agoriinae but more recently downranked to tribe Agoriini of the Salticoida clade in subfamily Salticinae.{{cite journal | last1=Maddison | first1=Wayne | last2=Li | first2=Daiqin | last3=Bodner | first3=Melissa | last4=Zhang | first4=Junxia | last5=Xin | first5=Xu | last6=Liu | first6=Qinqing | last7=Liu | first7=Fengxiang | title=The deep phylogeny of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) | journal=ZooKeys | publisher=Pensoft Publishers | issue=440 | date=2014-09-15 | issn=1313-2970 | doi=10.3897/zookeys.440.7891 | doi-access=free | pages=57–87| pmid=25317062 | bibcode=2014ZooK..440...57M }}

History

Agorius was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1877. No new species were described for about one hundred years, with seven new species found in the twenty-first century. Undescribed species have been found in Malaysia and Sabah. Several more species have been found but not yet described.

Description

Both sexes are about six to eight mm long. Agorius is similar to Myrmarachne, another good ant mimic, but can be distinguished from it by having no large, forward-pointing chelicerae, and is not found on vegetation above the ground, but only in rain forest leaf litter.

A. borneensis, A. formicinus, A. saaristoi and A. semirufus are only known from male specimens; A. cinctus, A. gracilipes and A. marieae are only known from a female.

Species

File:Agorius.constrictus.simon.svg]]

As of April 2017, the World Spider Catalog accepts 12 species in the genus:

Agorius baloghi Szüts, 2003 – New Guinea, New Britain
Agorius borneensis Edmunds & Prószyński, 2001 – Borneo
Agorius cinctus Simon, 1901 – Java, Lombok
Agorius constrictus Simon, 1901 – Malaysia, Singapore
Agorius formicinus Simon, 1903 – Sumatra
Agorius gracilipes Thorell, 1877 – Sulawesi
Agorius kerinci Prószyński, 2009 – Sumatra
Agorius lindu Prószyński, 2009 – Sulawesi
Agorius marieae Freudenschuss & Seiter, 2016 – Philippines
Agorius saaristoi Prószyński, 2009 – Borneo
Agorius semirufus Simon, 1901 – Philippines
Agorius tortilis Cao & Li, 2016 – China

References

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{{citation |title=Gen. Agorius Thorell, 1877 |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2482 |accessdate=25 April 2017}}

{{cite book|last1=Murphy|first1=Frances|last2=Murphy|first2=John|year=2000|title=An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia|publisher=Malaysian Nature Society|place=Kuala Lumpur|page=303}}

{{cite journal|last=Szűts |first=T. |year=2003 |title=New species of Agorius Thorell, 1877 (Araneae: Salticidae) from New Guinea |journal=Acta Zoologica Hungarica |volume=49 |number=1 |pages=61–69 |url=http://www.pedozoologia.net/PDF/Szuts2003a_ACTAZOOL.pdf |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070316064234/http://www.pedozoologia.net/PDF/Szuts2003a_ACTAZOOL.pdf |archivedate=2007-03-16 }}

{{cite web|last=Proszynski|first=J.|year=1997|title=Genus Agorius - Provisional Notes|website=Salticidae: Diagnostic Drawings Library|url=http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/agorius/agor-rem.htm|accessdate=25 April 2017|archive-date=5 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305031255/http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/agorius/agor-rem.htm|url-status=dead}}

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External links

Salticidae.org: [https://web.archive.org/web/20120209163852/http://www.salticidae.ca/salticid/diagnost/agorius/agorius.htm Diagnostic drawings and photographs]

Category:Salticidae

Category:Salticidae genera

Category:Spiders of Asia