Abstract
Three new species of the spider genus Mimetus (Mimetidae) are described from Sumatra Island, Indonesia: Mimetus falcifer sp. n. (♂♀), M. nataliae sp. n. (♀), and M. telum sp. n. (♂♀). This represents the first record of the family Mimetidae Simon, 1881 from Sumatra. Detailed descriptions, digital photographs and distributional map are provided.
References
Benavides LR, Hormiga G (2020) A morphological and combined phylogenetic analysis of pirate spiders (Araneae, Mimetidae): evolutionary relationships, taxonomy, and character evolution. Invertebrate Systematics 34(2): 144–191. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS19032
Brignoli PM (1980) Ricerche nell'Asia sudorientale dell'Istituto di Zoologia de L'Aquila. I. Due nuovi ragni di Celebes (Araneae: Pacullidae, Mimetidae). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 112: 162–166.
Forster RR, Platnick NI (1984) A review of the archaeid spiders and their relatives, with notes on the limits of the superfamily Palpimanoidea (Arachnida, Araneae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 178: 1–106.
Gan JH, Mi XQ, Irfan M, Peng XJ, Ran S & Zhan Y (2019) Three new species of the genus Mimetus Hentz, 1832 (Araneae: Mimetidae) from Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau of China. European Journal of Taxonomy 525: 1–13. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2019.525
Harms D & Dunlop JA (2009) A revision of the fossil pirate spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Mimetidae). Palaeontology 52(4): 779–802. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2009.00890.x
Jocqué R, Dippenaar-Schoeman AS (2006) Spider families of the world. Musée Royal de l'Afrique Central, 336 pp.
Liu JX, Xu X, Hormiga G & Yin HQ (2021) New species of the pirate spider genus Mimetus Hentz, 1832 from China with a cladistic hypothesis on their phylogenetic placement (Araneae, Mimetidae). Zootaxa 5020(1): 1–30. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5020.1.1
Marusik YM, Kovblyuk MM (2011) Spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of Siberia and Russian Far East. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 344 pp.
Mikhailov KG (2024) Checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and neighbouring countries (as of 2022) Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement No. 7. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 1–311.
Shorthouse DP (2010) SimpleMappr, an online tool to produce publication-quality point maps, online at http://www.simplemappr.net [accessed on June 2026]
Wang ZJ, Huang SH, Yao YB & Liu KK (2024) A new species of the genus Mimetus Hentz, 1832 from South China (Araneae: Mimetidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 33(2): 102–107. https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2024.02.005
World Spider Catalog (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch, accessed on June 2026. https://doi.org/10.24436/2
Zeng C, Wang C & Peng XJ (2016) Three spider species of the genus Mimetus Hentz, 1832 (Araneae, Mimetidae) from China. ZooKeys 626: 125–135. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.626.7918
Zeng C, Irfan M & Peng XJ (2019) First record of the spider genus Phobetinus (Araneae: Mimetidae) in China, with the description of a new species. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 12(4): 674–677. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.japb.2019.09.003
Zhang JS, Zhang HS, Liu JX, Yu H & Xu X (2025) A survey of mimetid spiders (Araneae, Mimetidae) from Central Guizhou Province, China. Zoosystematics and Evolution 101(2): 711–734. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.146895
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.