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Genus: Melpomene O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 | Family: Agelenidae C. L. Koch, 1837

Melpomene plesia Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021067

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Distribution: Panama

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Holotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA f - (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942b)
Paratype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA 1f - (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942b)
Paratype: Utah Museum of Natural History, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA 1f - (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942b)
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany 1f (9988; probably the paratype from Utah Museum?) -

Taxonomic References

Melpomene plesia Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942b: 238, f. 77 (Df) Original description

Melpomene plesia Lehtinen, 1967: 449, f. 252 (f)

References

Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W. (1942b). Agelenidae of the genera Hololena, Novalena, Rualena and Melpomene. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 35(2): 203-241. doi: 10.1093/aesa/35.2.203 -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468. [second pdf: index and outline by V. D. Roth (unpubl.)] -- Show included taxa

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