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Issue: Vol. 1325 No. 1: 28 Sept. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-09-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1325.1.19
Page range: 313–318
Abstract views: 96
PDF downloaded: 1

Spatiator martensi n. sp., a second species of the extinct spider family Spatiatoridae in Eocene Baltic amber (Araneae)

Oberer Häuselbergweg 24, D-69493 Hirschberg
Arachnida Fossil spiders Tertiary new species mimicry myrmecophagy myrmecomorphy

Abstract

Spatiator martensi n. sp. (Araneae: Spatiatoridae) is described from the Early Tertiary Baltic amber forest. It is the second known species of this extinct family of spiders. Ants as syninclusions point to a possible ant mimicry or myrmecophagy.

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