Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Mangora

Mangora melanocephala (Taczanowski, 1874)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016332]
  • Distribution: Mexico to Argentina
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland (database search of type material, 08.04.2019); Mangora pozonae Schenkel, 1953, 1 f (NMB-ARAN-01797 a)
Taxonomic references
Linyphia melanocephala Taczanowski, 1874: 70 (Dmf).
Zilla melanocephala Keyserling, 1881b: 552, pl. 16, f. 4 (mf).
Mangora picta O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889d: 14, pl. 3, f. 6 (f; misidentified per Chickering, 1954: 211).
Zilla melanocephala Keyserling, 1893: 302, pl. 15, f. 223 (mf).
Araneus melanocephalus Simon, 1897e: 2.
Mangora picta F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 479, pl. 45, f. 15 (f; misidentified per Chickering, 1954: 211).
Mangora spinula F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 480, pl. 45, f. 18 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016350].
Mangora dentembolus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936a: 59, pl. 12, f. 114-116 (Df).
Zygiella melanocephala Roewer, 1942a: 887.
Mangora melanocephala Caporiacco, 1948a: 659 (T from Zygiella).
Mangora aragarcensis Soares & Camargo, 1948a: 372, f. 27-28 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016310].
Mangora pozonae Schenkel, 1953a: 20, f. 18 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016342].
Mangora spinula Chickering, 1954: 211, f. 23-26 (mf, S of Mangora dentembolus).
Mangora melanocephala Levi, 2005a: 151, f. 30-47 (mf, S of Mangora aragarcensis, M. pozonae and M. spinula).
Mangora melanocephala Levi, 2007: 61, f. 2, 21, 199-211 (mf).
Mangora melanocephala Dierkens, 2013b: 114, f. 8, 17, 27-28 (mf).
References

Caporiacco, L. di (1948a). Arachnida of British Guiana collected in 1931 and 1936 by Professors Beccari and Romiti. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 118(3): 607-747. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1948.tb00402.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W. (1936a). New spiders from Mexico and Panama. Bulletin of the University of Utah 27(5): 1-103. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chickering, A. M. (1954). The spider genus Mangora (Argiopidae) in Panama. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 111(5): 193-215. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dierkens, M. (2013b). Contribution à l'étude des Araneidae de Guyane française. IV - Le genre Mangora. Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 82: 111-118. doi:10.3406/linly.2013.13847 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1881b). Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. II. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 30: 547-582. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1893). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 4, 209-377. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (2005a). The orb-weaver genus Mangora of Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 158: 139-182. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (2007). The orb weaver genus Mangora in South America (Araneae, Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 159: 1-144. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1889d). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 1-56, pl. 1-8. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1904). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 465-560, pl. 44-51. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1942a). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940. 1. Band (Mesothelae, Orthognatha, Labidognatha: Dysderaeformia, Scytodiformia, Pholciformia, Zodariiformia, Hersiliaeformia, Argyopiformia). Natura, Buchhandlung für Naturkunde und exakte Wissenschaften Paul Budy, Bremen, 1040 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schenkel, E. (1953a). Bericht über einige Spinnentiere aus Venezuela. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 64: 1-57. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1897e). Viaggio del Dott. A. Borelli nella République Argentina e nel Paraguay. Liste des arachnides recueillis aux Iles du Cap-Vert, dans la République Argentine et le Paraguay et descriptions d'espèces nouvelles. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Università di Torino 12(270): 1-8. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Soares, B. A. M. & Camargo, H. F. de A. (1948a). Aranhas coligidas pela Fundação Brasil-Central (Arachnida-Araneae). Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi 10: 355-409. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Taczanowski, L. (1874). Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 10: 56-115, pl. 2. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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