Ant-Mimicking Spiders: Strategies for Living with Social Insects

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Ant-associating salticids (a) Cosmophasis bitaeniata, chemical, aggressive myrmecophile and (c) Myrmarachne smaragdina, myrmecomorphic Batesian mimic, and their common model ant species (b) Oecophylla smaragdina in an aggressive display posture.

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