MIMICRY
(Australasian Invertebrates of Invertebrates)
 		         
     

Ubiquitous biting, stinging, acid spraying, formic acid tasting ants are
the most commonly mimicked animals on land, and it is the largest
Family of spiders in the world – Jumping Spiders – that have numerous species that have developed amazing techniques of achieving ant
likeness at both the visual and behavioural levels. When a spider mimics
an insect it must give the impression that it has an extra body part and cope with the growth issue – e.g. a spiderling cannot possibly mimic the
ant mimicked by the much larger adult. It can only mimic smaller ant size cohorts as it grows – this remarkable phenomenon is called
transformational mimicry. Go to Invertebrates of Vertebrates

0225: Ant Mimic Bushcricket
Tettigoniidae
West Papua
0226:Weaver Ant Mimic Bushcricket
Tettigoniidae
West Papua
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0227:Corinnid Ant Spider
Corinnidae
West Papua

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0228: Jumping Spider, Coccorchestes sp
Salticidae
West Papua
0229: Ant mimicking Jumping Spider, Myrmarachne sp.
Salticidae
Bali, Indonesia
0230:, Mutillid wasp mimic, Orsima formica
Salticidae
Sumatra, Indonesia

139: Green Tree Ant mimic
Oecophylla smaragdina mimic
Kimberley Region, WA
 
   


0219: Wasp Mimic Rove Beetle
Actinus sp.
West Papua

0220: Oecophorid Wasp Mimic
Oecophoridae
West Papua


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0221: Oecophorid Wasp Mimic
Oecophoridae
West Papua

0222: Tineid Moth
Tineidae
West Papua
0097: Wasp Mimic Bug
Dictyopharid Bug
Kutai Nat Park, Kalimantan, Indonesia

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0224: Leaf Cricket
Gryllidae
West Papua