Agorius

Genus of spiders

Agorius

Male Agorius sp. in Singapore
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Salticidae
Subfamily:  | Salticinae
Genus:  | Agorius
Thorell, 1877[1]
Type species
Agorius gracilipes

Thorell, 1877

Species

See text

Diversity
12 species

Agorius is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders).[1] 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.[citation needed]

## History[edit]

Agorius was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1877.[1] No new species were described for about one hundred years, with seven new species found in the twenty-first century.[2] Undescribed species have been found in Malaysia and Sabah.[3] Several more species have been found but not yet described.[4]

## Description[edit]

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.[3]

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.[1]

## Species[edit]

Agorius constrictus

As of April 2017, the World Spider Catalog accepts 12 species in the genus:[1]

* 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[edit]

1. ^ a b c d e "Gen. Agorius Thorell, 1877", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 25 April 2017
2. ^ Szűts, T. (2003). "New species of Agorius Thorell, 1877 (Araneae: Salticidae) from New Guinea" (PDF). Acta Zoologica Hungarica. 49 (1): 61–69. Archived from the original on 2007-03-16.`{{cite journal}}`: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
3. ^ a b Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society. p. 303.
4. ^ Proszynski, J. (1997). "Genus Agorius - Provisional Notes". Salticidae: Diagnostic Drawings Library. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2017.

## Further reading[edit]

* Edmunds, M. & Prószynski, J. (2001): New species of Malaysian Agorius and Sobasina (Araneae: Salticidae). Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc. 12: 139-143.

## External links[edit]

* Salticidae.org: Diagnostic drawings and photographs

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q238294
* Wikispecies: Agorius
* ADW: Agorius
* BioLib: 474173
* BOLD: 289504
* CoL: QW2
* EoL: 114065
* GBIF: 2171506
* iNaturalist: 48135
* ITIS: 871580
* NCBI: 1560413
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02802

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