Bucranium taurifrons

Bucranium taurifrons
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Thomisidae
Genus:	Bucranium
Species:	B. taurifrons
Binomial name
	Bucranium taurifrons; (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881)

Bucranium taurifrons is a species of ant-mimicking crab spiders from South America. It is found in Venezuela, Guyana, Peru, Brazil and Paraguay.^[1]

Like the crab spider Aphantochilus, it mimic ants of the genus Cephalotes (probably C. atratus), which are their preferred prey. It also carries dead ants.^{[citation needed]}

Name[]

Tauros means "bull" in Greek, frons is Latin for "front".^{[citation needed]}

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Taxon details Bucranium taurifrons (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881)", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2016-02-25

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[WSC_s40518-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Taxon details Bucranium taurifrons (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881)", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2016-02-25

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