# Ligonipes

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ligonipes
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ligonipes.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligonipes
> Source revision: 1333677177
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

***Ligonipes*** is a [spider](/source/Spider) [genus](/source/Genus) of the jumping spider family, [Salticidae](/source/Salticidae). Five of the six described species are found in the [Australian](/source/Australia) region, the exception being *[Ligonipes similis](/source/Ligonipes_similis)*, recorded as being from [Sumatra](/source/Sumatra).[1] Their body form [mimics ants](/source/Ant_mimicry).

*L. semitectus* is a very common spider in [Queensland](/source/Queensland), Australia. Males are 4 mm long, females 5 mm. There has been no information about *L. similis* (formerly in genus *[Rhombonotus](/source/Rhombonotus)*) since its original description in 1882.[2]

## Species

As of April 2017, the [World Spider Catalog](/source/World_Spider_Catalog) accepted the following species:[1]

- *[Ligonipes flavipes](/source/Ligonipes_flavipes)* [Rainbow](/source/William_Joseph_Rainbow), 1920 – [Norfolk Island](/source/Norfolk_Island)
- *[Ligonipes illustris](/source/Ligonipes_illustris)* Karsch, 1878 – [Queensland](/source/Queensland)
- *[Ligonipes lacertosus](/source/Ligonipes_lacertosus)* ([Thorell](/source/Tord_Tamerlan_Teodor_Thorell), 1881) – Queensland
- *[Ligonipes semitectus](/source/Ligonipes_semitectus)* (Simon, 1900) – Queensland
- *[Ligonipes similis](/source/Ligonipes_similis)* (Hasselt, 1882) – [Sumatra](/source/Sumatra)
- *[Ligonipes synageloides](/source/Ligonipes_synageloides)* (Szombathy, 1915) – New Guinea

## References

1. ["Gen. *Ligonipes* Karsch, 1878"](http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2744). *World Spider Catalog*. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-04-24.

1. Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000). *An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia*. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society. ISBN 978-983-9681-17-8. p. 272.

## Further reading

- Richardson, B.J.; Zabka, M.; Gray, M.R. & Milledge, G. (2006). "Distributional patterns of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in Australia". *Journal of Biogeography* **33**(4): 707-719. [doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01405.x](https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01405.x)

## External links

- Find-a-Spider: *[Ligonipes semitectus](http://www.findaspider.org.au/find/spiders/454.htm)*

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Ligonipes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligonipes) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligonipes?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.