Family: MIMETIDAE Simon, 1881

pirate spiders

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Diagnosis

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Characters

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Distribution

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Natural History

Feeding Guild:^† stalkers

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^†Feeding guild when noted defined by Uetz, G. W., J. Halaj, and A. B. Cady. 1999. Guild structure of spiders in major crops. Journal of Arachnology 27:270-280.

Nearctic Taxonomic/Species Richness

Number of Nearctic Species: 14 (as documented in the World Spider Catalog & includes introductions)

Nearctic/Palearctic Genera

#	Genus	Ref.	Common Name
1	Ero C. L. Koch, 1836

2	Mimetus Hentz, 1832

3	Reo Brignoli, 1979

Nearctic/Palearctic Species Images

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