Toxeus C.L. Koch, 1846

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Genus Toxeus C.L. Koch, 1846

Type species.

Toxeus maxillosus C. L. Koch, 1846 from Indonesia by original designation.

Comments.

Toxeus is a Myrmarachnina genus and represented 12 species distributed from East to Southeast Asia ( Maddison 2015; WSC 2022). The genus has always been considered a synonym of the genus Myrmarachne until was reinstated by Prószyński (2016), who separates nine genera from Myrmarachne based on the study of the morphology of copulatory organs and diagnosed Toxeus by the pipe-like sclerotized spermathecae. However, Prószyński’s conclusion was denied by the molecular evidence ( Yamasaki et al. 2018; Maddison and Szűts 2019) and so the validity of the genus is uncertain. Herein, we assigned the following new species to the genus due to its being morphologically similar to the known species of the genus.