Taxon details

Family: Selenopidae / Genus: Selenops

Selenops banksi Muma, 1953

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2021-03-13
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028641]
  • Distribution: Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, Brazil
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); m (01875, destroyed by the fire 2018) of Selenops kikay
  • Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; m (20436) (Crews, Galvis & Esposito, 2021)
Taxonomic references
Selenops banksi Muma, 1953: 38, f. 61-63 (Dm).
Selenops kikay Corronca, 1996a: 68, f. 6-9 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028663].
Selenops kikay Corronca, 1998d: 136, f. 27-30 (mf).
Selenops banksi Crews, 2011: 25, f. 15-16 (m).
Selenops banksi Crews, Galvis & Esposito, 2021: 2348, f. 1a-d, 2a-i, 3a-d, 4a-o, 5a-c, 6a-b, e, h-i, l (mf, S of Selenops kikay).
References

Corronca, J. A. (1996a). Three new species of Selenops Latreille (Araneae, Selenopidae) from northern Brazil. Journal of Arachnology 24: 68-71. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Corronca, J. A. (1998d). The South American spiders of the genus Selenops (Araneae, Selenopidae) with a description of three new species. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 33(2): 124-148. doi:10.1076/snfe.33.2.124.2153 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Crews, S. C. (2011). A revision of the spider genus Selenops Latreille, 1819 (Arachnida, Araneae, Selenopidae) in North America, Central America and the Caribbean. ZooKeys 105: 1-182. doi:10.3897/zookeys.105.724 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Crews, S. C., Galvis, W. & Esposito, L. A. (2021). Gliding canopy flatties and relatives from the Selenops banksi group (Araneae: Selenopidae). Journal of Natural History 54(35-36, 2020): 2343-2365. doi:10.1080/00222933.2020.1844914 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Muma, M. H. (1953). A study of the spider family Selenopidae in North and Central America and the West Indies. American Museum Novitates 1619: 1-55. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2021-03-13 New taxonomic reference entry Crews, Galvis & Esposito, 2021 n/a
2021-03-13 Species distribution update Crews, Galvis & Esposito, 2021 n/a (Old value)
2021-03-13 Species synonymy Crews, Galvis & Esposito, 2021 Selenops kikay synonymized with Selenops banksi