ant spider

{{Short description|Family of spiders}}

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| name=Ant spiders

| image=Mallinella.fulvipes.female.-.tanikawa.jpg

| image_caption=Female Mallinella fulvipes

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| taxon=Zodariidae

| authority=Thorell, 1881

| diversity_link=List of Zodariidae species

| diversity=90 genera, 1259 species

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Ant spiders are members of the family Zodariidae. They are small to medium-sized eight-eyed spiders found in all tropical and subtropical regions of South America, Africa, Madagascar, Australia-New Guinea, New Zealand, Arabia and the Indian subcontinent.{{Cite web|url=http://www.arachne.org.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=1664|title=Zodariidae ant spiders|access-date=2019-11-02}} Most species are daytime hunters and live together with ants, mimicking their behavior and sometimes even their chemical traits. Although little is known about most zodariids, members of the genus Zodarion apparently feed only on ants; a number of other genera in the family are apparently also ant (or termite) specialists.{{Cite web|url=https://eol.org/pages/9038/articles|title=zodariid ground spiders|website=EOL-Encyclopedia of Life|access-date=2019-11-02}}

Genera

{{As of|2024|11}}, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following genera:

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See also

References

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{{citation |title=Family Zodariidae Thorell, 1881 (genus list) |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genlist/109 |access-date=2024-11-29 }}

{{citation |title=Currently valid spider genera and species |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/statistics/ |access-date=2017-04-28 }}

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