Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0010] Back
Gen.
Melloina Brignoli, 1985 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00295 ]
N.B.: replacement name for Melloa Schenkel, 1953a: 3 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04713], preoccupied in Opiliones by Roewer, 1930; transferred from the Theraphosidae to the Paratropididae by Raven, 1985a: 122 and back to the Theraphosidae by Mori & Bertani, 2020: 35; objective senior synonym of Glabropelma Raven, 1985a: 122 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04168] (Platnick, 1989b: 112: superfluous replacement name for Melloa).
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2023-06-07
2023-06-07
Described in
Brignoli, 1985a: 380 (type Melloa gracilis Schenkel, 1953; gender feminine)
Brignoli, 1985a: 380 (type Melloa gracilis Schenkel, 1953; gender feminine)
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Species counts
| Counts | Status |
| 4 | accepted |
Reference
Edit history
Brignoli, P. M. (1985a). On some generic homonymies in spiders (Araneae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 6: 380. 
| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-11-06 | Genus transferred to other family | Mori & Bertani, 2020 | Melloina Brignoli, 1985 transferred to Theraphosidae |