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ZODARIIDAE - Ant-hunting Ground Spiders

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Ant spiders are members of the family Zodariidae. They are small to medium-sized eight-eyed spiders found in all tropical and subtropical regions of South America, Africa, Madagascar, Australia-New Guinea, New Zealand, Arabia and the Indian subcontinent. Most species are daytime hunters and live together with ants, mimicking their behavior and sometimes even their chemical traits. Although little is known about most zodariids, members of the genus Zodarion apparently feed only on ants; a number of other genera in the family are apparently also ant (or termite) specialists.

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Spider identification from photographs should not be definitive in many cases.
For positive identification of many spiders, it is often necessary to examine their copulatory organs under a microscope.

Quote from : Borneo Spiders: A Photographic Field Guide by Joseph K H Koh and Nicky Bay

The gallery images are my Amateurish ID, would be grateful for ID correction.

(Mallinella sp.)[A] ♀
(Mallinella sp.)[A]
♀		 (Mallinella sp.)[B] ♀
(Mallinella sp.)[B]
♀		 (Mallinella sp.)[C] ♀
(Mallinella sp.)[C]
♀		 (Mallinella platyrhyncha) ♀
(Mallinella platyrhyncha)
♀

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