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Black ant mimicking Jumper
Toxeus magnus
Toxeus magnus is a species of jumping spider of the genus Toxeus. It is endemic to Taiwan and Southeast Asia. The species was originally classified as a part of the genus Myrmarachne in 1933 by Saitō in his work Notes on the spiders from Formosa, but it was later reclassified as Toxeus by the Polish arachnologist Jerzy Prószyński in November 2016. The species is notable for being a non-mammalian animal that nurses its offspring through a...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 796156.