Family: Mysmenidae Petrunkevitch, 1928 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0079] Back

Gen. Microdipoena Banks, 1895 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00801 ]
N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Mysmena Simon, 1894 by Saaristo, 1978: 125 (but see also Wunderlich, 2004h: 1073); considered a senior synonym of Anjouanella Baert, 1986: 265 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00788] (type A. comorensis Baert, 1986) and of Mysmenella Brignoli, 1980j: 731 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00803] (type Mysmena illectrix Simon, 1895) by Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015: 783 (contra Wunderlich, 2004h: 1073, who considered Mysmenella a junior synonym of Mysmena Simon, 1894).
Status: accepted
Last updated
2024-08-29
Described in
Banks, 1895d: 84 (type Microdipoena guttata Banks, 1895; gender feminine)
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Species counts
Counts Status
21accepted
Reference

Banks, N. (1895d). A list of the spiders of Long Island; with descriptions of new species. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 3: 76-93. download pdf

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Date Type Reference Detail
2015-07-08 Genus synonymy Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015 Mysmenella synonymized with Microdipoena
2015-07-08 Genus synonymy Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015 Anjouanella synonymized with Microdipoena