Taxon details

Family: Gnaphosidae / Genus: Megamyrmaekion

Megamyrmaekion caudatum Reuss, 1834

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2021-09-23
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027479]
  • Distribution: Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Israel, Iran, India
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); j (2864-107)
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); f (3293) of Drassus tarrhunensis (Bosmans & Hervé, 2021)
  • Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; f of Megamyrmaekion ashae (Sankaran & Caleb, 2021)
  • Paratype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; 2f of Megamyrmaekion ashae (Sankaran & Caleb, 2021)
  • Allotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; m of Megamyrmaekion ashae (Sankaran & Caleb, 2021)
Taxonomic references
Megamyrmaekion caudatum Reuss, 1834: 217, pl. 18, f. 12 (Dj).
Dyction reussi Walckenaer, 1837: 380 (Df).
Drassus tarrhunensis Karsch, 1881a: 12, pl. 1, f. 11 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027011].
Megamyrmecion pumilum Simon, 1885i: 38 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027486].
Megamyrmecion caudatum Simon, 1893a: 370, f. 325, 330.
Megamyrmaekion ashae Tikader & Gajbe, 1977a: 16, f. 2A-E (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027477].
Megamyrmaekion ashae Tikader, 1982b: 372, f. 181-186 (mf).
Megamyrmaekion caudatum Levy, 1999d: 442, f. 26, 30-31 (f; m is M. hula per Levy, 2009: 16).
Megamyrmaekion ashae Gajbe, 2007: 464, f. 109-114 (mf).
Megamyrmaekion caudatum Levy, 2009: 14, f. 29-32 (mf, S of Megamyrmecion pumilum).
Megamyrmaekion caudatum Zamani et al., 2017c: 61, f. 2D-F (mf).
Megamyrmaekion caudatum Bosmans & Hervé, 2021: 60, f. 2b-c (f, S of Drassodes tarrhunensis).
Megamyrmaekion caudatum Sankaran & Caleb, 2021: 545, f. 25-29, 32-37 (mf, S of Megamyrmaekion ashae).
References

Bosmans, R. & Hervé, C. (2021). Less is more: eight new synonyms in Mediterranean spiders (Araneae), with a new Pelecopsis species from Tunisia (Linyphiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 61: 58-64. doi:10.30963/aramit6109 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gajbe, U. A. (2007). Araneae: Arachnida. In: Fauna of Madhya Pradesh (including Chhattisgarh), State Fauna Series. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata 15(1), 419-540. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1881a). Verzeichniss der während der Rohlfs'schen africanischen Expedition erbeuteten Myriopoden und Arachniden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 47(1): 1-14, pl. 1. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (1999d). Spiders of six uncommon drassodine genera (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 45: 427-452. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (2009). New ground-spider genera and species with annexed checklist of the Gnaphosidae (Araneae) of Israel. Zootaxa 2066: 1-49. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2066.1.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Reuss, A. (1834). Zoologische Miscellen. Museum Senckenbergianum, Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der beschreibenden Naturgeschichte 1: 195-276. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sankaran, P. M. & Caleb, J. T. D. (2021). On the taxonomic validity of Indian ground spiders: V. Genera Megamyrmaekion Reuss, 1834, Sosticus Chamberlin, 1922 and Gaviphosa gen. nov. (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 5040(4): 539-564. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5040.4.5 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1885i). Etudes sur les Arachnides recueillis en Tunisie en 1883 et 1884 par MM. A. Letourneux, M. Sédillot et Valéry Mayet, membres de la mission de l'Exploration scientifique de la Tunisie. In: Exploration scientifique de la Tunisie, publiée sous les auspices du Ministère de l'instruction publique. Zoologie – Arachnides. Imprimerie nationale, Paris, 55 pp. 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

Tikader, B. K. & Gajbe, U. A. (1977a). Studies on some spiders of the genera Scopodes Chamberlin, Megamyrmecion Reuss, Scotophaeus Simon and Liodrassus Chamberlin (family: Gnaphosidae) from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 73: 13-22. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. (1982b). Part 2. Family Gnaphosidae. In: The fauna of India. Spiders: Araneae. Vol. II. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, pp. 295-536. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Tome premier. Roret, Paris, 682 pp., pl. 1-15. [plates in second pdf] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O., Dolejš, P., Marusik, Y. M., Esyunin, S. L., Hula, V. & Ponel, P. (2017c). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part IV. Acta Arachnologica 66(2): 55-71. doi:10.2476/asjaa.66.55 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2021-09-23 New taxonomic reference entry Sankaran & Caleb, 2021 n/a
2021-09-23 Species distribution update Sankaran & Caleb, 2021 n/a (Old value)
2021-09-23 Species synonymy Sankaran & Caleb, 2021 Megamyrmaekion ashae synonymized with Megamyrmaekion caudatum
2021-04-26 Species distribution update Bosmans & Hervé, 2021 n/a (Old value)
2021-04-26 New taxonomic reference entry Bosmans & Hervé, 2021 n/a
2021-04-26 Species synonymy Bosmans & Hervé, 2021 Megamyrmaekion tarrhunense synonymized with Megamyrmaekion caudatum
2017-12-17 New taxonomic reference entry Zamani et al., 2017c n/a
2017-12-17 Species distribution update Zamani et al., 2017c n/a (Old value)