Taxon details

Family: Oonopidae / Genus: Pelicinus

Pelicinus marmoratus Simon, 1892

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2019-09-16
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005135]
  • Distribution: Tropical Asia. Introduced to Pacific Is., Caribbean, Brazil, Canary Is., Kenya, Seychelles
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); m (36927-102) of Gamasomorpha gracilipes (Brescovit et al., 2019b)
  • Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium; m (146340) of Silhouettella mahei (Brescovit et al., 2019b)
  • Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHMW), Wien/Vienna, Austria; m of Myrmopopaea jacobsoni (Brescovit et al., 2019b)
  • Holotype: Bernice P. Bishop Museum (BPBM), Honolulu, USA; m of Gamasomorpha minima (Brescovit et al., 2019b)
  • Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; f of Hytanis pusilla (Brescovit et al., 2019b)
  • Holotype: Bernice P. Bishop Museum (BPBM), Honolulu, USA; m of Scaphiella ula (Brescovit et al., 2019b)
  • Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; m of Triaeris reticulatus (Brescovit et al., 2019b)
  • Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); 1f (36928-102) of Gamasomorpha gracilipes
  • Paratype: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHMW), Wien/Vienna, Austria; 2f of Myrmopopaea jacobsoni (Brescovit et al., 2019b)
  • Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; 1m 2f (Brescovit et al., 2019b)
Taxonomic references
Pelicinus marmoratus Simon, 1892e: 559, pl. 42, f. 4 (Dmf).
Philesius marmoratus Simon, 1893a: 303.
Myrmopopaea jacobsoni Reimoser, 1933: 397, f. 1-3 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:004968].
Gamasomorpha minima Berland, 1942: 5, f. 1a (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:004900].
Hytanis pusilla Bryant, 1942a: 326, f. 13-14 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005212].
Scaphiella ula Suman, 1965: 230, f. 15-20 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005163].
Triaeris reticulatus Chickering, 1969b: 354, f. 6-13 (Dmf).
Triaeris pusillus Chickering, 1973c: 228 (Tf from Hytanis, Sm).
Silhouettella mahei Benoit, 1979a: 205, f. 6A (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005167].
Traieris reticulata Brignoli, 1983c: 193.
Gamasomorpha gracilipes Wunderlich, 1987a: 65, f. 37-39 (Dmf).
Pelicinus mahei Saaristo, 2001a: 321, f. 40A-B, 41-46 (Tm from Silhouettella, Sf).
Pelicinus mahei Saaristo, 2010: 142, f. 22.40-46 (mf).
Pelicinus marmoratus Platnick et al., 2012b: 18, f. 1-60, 121-144 (mf, S).
Pelicinus marmoratus Ranasinghe & Benjamin, 2016c: 72, f. 1A-H, 2A-B, 3A-B (mf).
Pelicinus marmoratus Brescovit et al., 2019b: 12, f. 41-45 (mf).
References

Benoit, P. L. G. (1979a). Contributions à l'étude de la faune terrestre des îles granitiques de l'archipel des Séchelles (Mission P.L.G. Benoit - J.J. Van Mol 1972). Oonopidae (Araneae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 93: 185-222. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Berland, L. (1942). Polynesian spiders. Occasional Papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 17(1): 1-24. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Brescovit, A. D., Bonaldo, A. B., Ott, R. & Chavari, J. L. (2019b). To boldly go: on invasive goblin spiders in Brazil (Araneae, Oonopidae). Iheringia, Série Zoologia 109(e2019033): 1-20. doi:10.1590/1678-4766e2019033 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Brignoli, P. M. (1983c). A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press, 755 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bryant, E. B. (1942a). Notes on the spiders of the Virgin Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 89: 317-366. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chickering, A. M. (1969b). The genus Triaeris Simon (Araneae, Oonopidae) in Central America and the West Indies. Psyche, Cambridge 75(4, 1968): 351-359. doi:10.1155/1968/909205 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chickering, A. M. (1973c). Notes on Heteroonops and Triaeris (Araneae; Oonopidae). Psyche, Cambridge 80(3): 227-229. doi:10.1155/1973/71508 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Platnick, N. I., Dupérré, N., Ott, R., Baehr, B. C. & Kranz-Baltensperger, Y. (2012b). The goblin spider genus Pelicinus (Araneae, Oonopidae), Part 1. American Museum Novitates 3741: 1-43. doi:10.1206/3741.2 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Ranasinghe, U. G. S. L. & Benjamin, S. P. (2016c). New records of Pelicinus and Xyphinus from Sri Lanka (Araneae: Oonopidae). Indian Journal of Arachnology 5: 71-78. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Reimoser, E. (1933). Fauna Sumatrensis. Araneina. I. Systematischer Teil. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 76: 396-400. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (2001a). Dwarf hunting spiders or Oonopidae (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Seychelles. Insect Systematics & Evolution 32(3): 307-358. doi:10.1163/187631201X00236 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (2010). Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1892e). On the spiders of the island of St. Vincent. Part 1. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 59(4, 1891): 549-575, pl. 42. [published in April 1892, after Duncan, 1937] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1893a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 257-488. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Suman, T. W. (1965). Spiders of the family Oonopidae in Hawaii. Pacific Insects 7: 225-242. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1987a). Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen. Triops, Langen, 435 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2019-09-16 New taxonomic reference entry Brescovit et al., 2019b n/a
2016-12-14 New taxonomic reference entry Ranasinghe & Benjamin, 2016c n/a
2016-11-11 Species updated Error corrected (Old value)