Taxon details


Mexcala elegans G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034663]
  • Distribution: Ivory Coast, Malawi, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa
Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Mexcala elegans Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 248, pl. 29, f. 2 (Dm).
Cosmophasis natalensis Lawrence, 1942: 184, f. 30 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032961].
Mexcala natalensis Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008: 197, f. 92-97 (mf, T from Cosmophasis).
Mexcala elegans Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 56, f. 101-104, 247 (mf).
Mexcala elegans Wesołowska, 2009a: 158, f. 2, 30-46 (mf, S of Cosmophasis natalensis).
References

Lawrence, R. F. (1942). A contribution to the araneid fauna of Natal and Zululand. Annals of the Natal Museum 10: 141-190. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1903). New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian region. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 14(1): 173-278, pl. 19-29. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Cumming, M. S. (2008). Taxonomy and natural history of a species rich assemblage of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae); a long-term study of a suburban site in Zimbabwe. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 58: 167-230. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2009a). A revision of the spider genus Mexcala Peckham et Peckham, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 20: 149-186. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2009). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa. African Invertebrates 50(1): 13-103. doi:10.5733/afin.050.0102 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Metzner, H. (2019). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2016). Monograph of Salticidae (Araneae) of the World 1995-2015. Part II. Global Species Database of Salticidae (Araneae). Version October 30th, 2016, online at http://www.salticidae.pl. download pdf

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