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title: "Red Weaver Ant-mimicking Spider"
description: "Myrmaplata plataleoides — Insectes et araignées. Myrmaplata plataleoides, also called the red weaver-ant mimicking jumper, is a jumping spider that mimics the Asian weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) in morphology and behaviour."
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# Red Weaver Ant-mimicking Spider

> Myrmaplata plataleoides — Insectes et araignées. Myrmaplata plataleoides, also called the red weaver-ant mimicking jumper, is a jumping spider that mimics the Asian weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) in morphology and behaviour.

- Scientific name: *Myrmaplata plataleoides*
- Category: `insects` (Insectes et araignées)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 3088
- Wikidata: [Q116263459](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116263459)
- iNaturalist taxon: [796160](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/796160)

## Names

- en: Red Weaver Ant-mimicking Spider

## Countries with the most observations

IN (1764), TH (351), LK (259), SG (83), KH (29), MY (20), VN (16), BD (5), CN (5), LA (3), MV (3)

## Summary

Myrmaplata plataleoides, also called the red weaver-ant mimicking jumper, is a jumping spider that mimics the Asian weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) in morphology and behaviour. This species is found in India, Sri Lanka, China and many parts of Southeast Asia.
Unlike the weaver ants, M. plataleoides does not bite people, and indeed seems rather timid.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrmaplata_plataleoides

## Photo

![Red Weaver Ant-mimicking Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/red-weaver-ant-mimicking-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Adithyan A Saj · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/171766084

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/red-weaver-ant-mimicking-spider?lang=fr` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).