Agorius

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Sectio: Dionycha
Superfamilia: Salticoidea

Familia: Salticidae
Genus: Agorius
Species: A. baloghi – A. borneensis – A. cinctus – A. constrictus – A. formicinus – A. gracilipes – A. hyodoi – A. marieae – A. semirufus – A. tortilis
Name

Agorius Thorell, 1877

Type species:

Agorius male (SGM05-3105) — SINGAPORE: Nee Soon Swamp Forest 1.39 °N 103.81 °E

References
Primary references
Additional references

Cao, Q., Li, S-Q. & Żabka, M. 2016. The jumping spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 630: 43–104. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.630.8466. Reference page.
Yamasaki, T., Hashimoto, Y., Endo, T., Hyodo, F., Itioka, T. & Meleng, P. 2020. A new species of the genus Agorius (Araneae: Salticidae) from Sarawak, Borneo. Acta Arachnologica 69(1): 37-41. DOI: 10.2476/asjaa.69.37. Open access. Reference page.

Agorius is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders).[1] The genera Agorius and Synagelides (and perhaps Pseudosynagelides) are separated as a genus group, sometimes called subfamily Agoriinae but more recently downranked to tribe Agoriini of the Salticoida clade in subfamily Salticinae.

History

Agorius was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1877.[1] No new species were described for about one hundred years, with seven new species found in the twenty-first century.[2] Undescribed species have been found in Malaysia and Sabah.[3] Several more species have been found but not yet described.[4]
Description

Both sexes are about six to eight mm long. Agorius is similar to Myrmarachne, another good ant mimic, but can be distinguished from it by having no large, forward-pointing chelicerae, and is not found on vegetation above the ground, but only in rain forest leaf litter.[3]

A. borneensis, A. formicinus, A. saaristoi and A. semirufus are only known from male specimens; A. cinctus, A. gracilipes and A. marieae are only known from a female.[1]
Species
Agorius constrictus

As of April 2017, the World Spider Catalog accepts 12 species in the genus:[1]

Agorius baloghi Szüts, 2003 – New Guinea, New Britain
Agorius borneensis Edmunds & Prószyński, 2001 – Borneo
Agorius cinctus Simon, 1901 – Java, Lombok
Agorius constrictus Simon, 1901 – Malaysia, Singapore
Agorius formicinus Simon, 1903 – Sumatra
Agorius gracilipes Thorell, 1877 – Sulawesi
Agorius kerinci Prószyński, 2009 – Sumatra
Agorius lindu Prószyński, 2009 – Sulawesi
Agorius marieae Freudenschuss & Seiter, 2016 – Philippines
Agorius saaristoi Prószyński, 2009 – Borneo
Agorius semirufus Simon, 1901 – Philippines
Agorius tortilis Cao & Li, 2016 – China

References

"Gen. Agorius Thorell, 1877", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 25 April 2017
Szűts, T. (2003). "New species of Agorius Thorell, 1877 (Araneae: Salticidae) from New Guinea" (PDF). Acta Zoologica Hungarica. 49 (1): 61–69. Archived from the original on 2007-03-16.
Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society. p. 303.

Proszynski, J. (1997). "Genus Agorius - Provisional Notes". Salticidae: Diagnostic Drawings Library. Retrieved 25 April 2017.