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Field Notes

Notes:

An ant of some sorts?
I have more photos, but all are as crappy (if not worse).
South Korea 2005

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (12)
kadavoor
We have similar one in India: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jkadavoor/5464573624/
NicoleB
I still need to digg into ID-ing this fellow :)
ChunXingWong
Spiders that mimic ants are common and abundant here in S E Asia. I spotted them all the time. Do not go to my spotting page yet because I haven't uploaded any myrmecomorphy spiders yet.
NicoleB
Just found this great post about why a spider would want to mimick an ant: http://www.thefeaturedcreature.com/2010/08/ant-spider-weird-ant-mimicking-spider.html#axzz1TqlNqgSL Interesting!
NicoleB
This one looks close to my fellow above, but not 100% http://www.findaspider.org.au/find/spiders/430.htm Will keep digging :)
Latimeria
This page might help you with your search, at least to narrow it to certain families: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mimicry. Good luck!
NicoleB
Cool, will dig in for a search with my second coffee - thanks! :-D
Latimeria
Ramon is right, it's an ant-mimic spider. That's pretty neat, I've heard of this type of mimicry, but haven't seen it before.
NicoleB
Thanks for pointing that out, Ramon! Hm, Spiderant? ;-)
RamonPinyolSalvadó
I think... it's some arachnid it has 8 legs, the ants have only 6 legs...
NicoleB
Cool critters, have not seen them often :)
Darvesh
Hello Nicole, same thing here............. "http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/6032940" But your one is much clearer. am also waiting for some suggestion.

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