Myrmecotypus haddadi Perger & Rubio, 2021

Silva-Junior, Cláudio J. & Bonaldo, Alexandre B., 2024, A revision of the South American species of the ant-mimicking spider genus Myrmecotypus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894 (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae), Zootaxa 5555 (4), pp. 451-496 : 461-462

Myrmecotypus haddadi Perger & Rubio, 2021

Figs 4A–K, 5A–I

Myrmecotypus haddadi Perger & Rubio, 2021b: 182 , fig. 23 (holotype, ♂, BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz department, Santa Cruz de la Colina, Urubo ; in Zoological Museum Hamburg, University of Hamburg, Germany , ZMH-A0015356, not examined).

Diagnosis. Males of M. haddadi resemble those of M. niger by the presence of a sclerotized RTP but can be recognized by the RTP being elongated, sclerotized and excavated ( Fig. 4G–I), whereas it is hook-shaped in M. niger ( Fig. 8G, H); females can be recognized by the epigyne with two large circular copulatory openings and two small posterior transverse sutures ( Fig. 4J).

Description. See Perger & Rubio, 2021.

Variation. Length (1♂) total 3.82, carapace 2.06, femur I 0.90; (2♀) total 3.77–4.02, carapace 2.11–2.24, femur I 0.90–1.04.

New records. BOLIVIA: Beni: Estação Ecológica de Beni [14°33’24.0’’S, 66°05’14.8’’W], 1♀, VIII.1993, A.D. Brescovit leg. ( IBSP, IB-24016 ) . BRAZIL: Rondônia: Porto Velho, Maravilha [08°47’22.4’’S, 63°52’53.5’’W], 1♂ 1♀, 15. IV .1996, Eq. IBSP / SMNK leg. ( IBSP, IB-7947 ); Amazonas: Manaus, Reserva de Campinas [02°57’58.4’’S, 59°55’22.0’’W], 1♀, 01.XII.1979, P. S. Oliveira leg. ( IBSP, IB-151344 ) .

Distribuition. Bolivia and northern Brazil ( Fig. 25).