Red Weaver Ant-mimicking Spider ♂ (Myrmaplata plataleoides)

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Photo by Francis Floe

Published on Project Noah

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Field Notes

Description:

This is a male Myrmaplata plataleoides, you can distinguish them with their enormous pedipalps. I already posted a spotting of its female counterpart https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/593328750

Habitat:

Found him hitchhiking on my backpack.

Reference Links:

Myrmaplata plataleoides (O. Pickard-Cambridge 1869)-Encyclopedia of Life, Myrmaplata plataleoides - Wikipedia, Photos of Myrmarachne assimilis · iNaturalist