Taxon details

Family: Mimetidae / Genus: Mimetus

Mimetus epeiroides Emerton, 1882

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-12-22
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005748]
  • Distribution: Canada, USA. Introduced to Galapagos
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; m (Kaston, 1948)
Taxonomic references
Mimetus epeiroides Emerton, 1882: 17, pl. 3, f. 4 (Dm).
Mimetus epeiroides Chamberlin, 1923: 6, f. 3 (m, removed from S of Mimetus interfector = M. syllepsicus, rejecting Keyserling, 1886b: 6).
Mimetus epeiroides Kaston, 1948: 276, f. 883-884, 892, 908 (mf, revalidation confirmed).
Mimetus epeiroides Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 174, f. 1945-1947 (mf).
Mimetus epeiroides Baert et al., 2023: 14, f. 54A-B (m).
References

Baert, L., Maelfait, J.-P., Desender, K., Hendrickx, F., Dekoninck, W., Berthet, M., Bouckaert, K., Caudron, J. & Leclercq, M. (2023). Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands. Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1-188. [includes figs of 5 undescribed species] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. (1923). The North American species of Mimetus. Journal of Entomology and Zoology 15: 3-9. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1882). New England spiders of the family Theridiidae. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6: 1-86. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kaston, B. J. (1948). Spiders of Connecticut. Bulletin of the Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey 70: 1-874. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Paquin, P. & Dupérré, N. (2003). Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Supplement 11: 1-251. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-12-22 New taxonomic reference entry Baert et al., 2023 n/a
2024-12-22 Species distribution update Baert et al., 2023 n/a (Old value)