Family: Microstigmatidae Roewer, 1942 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0008] Back

Gen. Kiama Main & Mascord, 1969 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00059 ]
N.B.: transferred from the Dipluridae to the Cyrtaucheniidae by Raven, 1985a: 130, to the Nemesiidae by Bond & Hedin, in Bond et al., 2012b: 10, and to the Microstigmatidae by Opatova et al., 2020: 701.
Status: accepted
Last updated
2023-05-16
Described in
Main & Mascord, 1969: 24 (type Kiama lachrymoides Main & Mascord, 1969; gender feminine)
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Species counts
Counts Status
1accepted
Reference

Main, B. Y. & Mascord, R. (1969). A new genus of diplurid spider (Araneae: Mygalomorphae) from New South Wales. Journal of the Entomological Society of Australia, New South Wales 6: 24-30. download pdf

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Date Type Reference Detail
2020-06-18 Genus transferred to other family Opatova et al., 2020 Kiama Main & Mascord, 1969 transferred to Microstigmatidae