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Genus: Megamyrmaekion Reuss, 1834 | Family: Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892

Megamyrmaekion luridum (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026937

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Distribution: India, Vietnam

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Holotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK f (254/138) - (Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2019b)
Holotype: Spider Research Laboratory, J. D. Patil Sangludkar Mahavidyalaya (SRL, JDPSM), Daryapur, Maharashtra, India f of Drassodes samarae - (Gawande & Bodkhe, 2018)
Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India f (5008/18) of Scopodes maitraiae - (Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2019b)
Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India f (5408/18) of Megamyrmaekion kajalae - (Sankaran & Caleb, 2021)
Paratype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India 1f (5409/18) of Megamyrmaekion kajalae - (Sankaran & Caleb, 2021)

Taxonomic References

Drassus luridus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874a: 396, pl. 52, f. 21 (Dmf) Original description

Scopodes maitraiae Tikader & Gajbe, 1977a: 14, f. 1A-E (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027829]

Drassodes luridus Tikader, 1982b: 409, f. 260-263 (mf)

Scopodes maitraiae Tikader, 1982b: 365, f. 164-169 (mf)

Megamyrmecion kajalae Biswas & Biswas, 1992: 430, f. 39-41 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027482]

Scopodes maitraiae Gajbe, 2007: 462, f. 97-102 (mf)

Drassodes luridus Caleb, Karthikeyani & Muthuchelian, 2014: 135, f. 1a-f, 2a-c (f)

Scopoides samarae Gawande & Bodkhe, 2018: 225, f. 1-6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051202]

Drassodes luridus Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2019b: 161, f. 27-31 (f, S of Scopoides maitraiae and Scopoides samarae)

Drassodes luridus Sankaran & Caleb, 2021: 548, f. 38-42 (f, S of Megamyrmaekion kajalae)

Megamyrmaekion luridum Truong et al., 2026: 435, f. 1A-B, 2A-D, 3A-D (mf, T from Drassodes)

References

Biswas, B. & Biswas, K. (1992). Araneae: Spiders. State Fauna Series 3: Fauna of West Bengal 3, 357-500. -- Show included taxa

Caleb, J. T. D., Karthikeyani, R. & Muthuchelian, K. (2014). Description of Drassodes luridus O. P. Cambridge (Araneae: Gnaphosidae): First record from Tamil Nadu, India. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 2(4): 135-138. -- Show included taxa

Gajbe, U. A. (2007). Araneae: Arachnida. In: Fauna of Madhya Pradesh (including Chhattisgarh), State Fauna Series. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata 15(1), 419-540. -- Show included taxa

Gawande, B. & Bodkhe, A. (2018). Description of spider genus Scopoides as a new species (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Wari Reserve Forest Area, Maharashtra, India. In: Rao, P. N., Saxena, A., Pandey, B. N. & Kulkarni, G. K. (eds.) Biodiversity and bioprospects: Indian scenario and perspectives. Today & Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers, New Delhi, pp. 223-228. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1874a). On some new species of Drassides. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 42(3): 370-419, pl. 51-52. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1874.tb02495.x -- Show included taxa

Sankaran, P. M. & Caleb, J. T. D. (2021). On the taxonomic validity of Indian ground spiders: V. Genera Megamyrmaekion Reuss, 1834, Sosticus Chamberlin, 1922 and Gaviphosa gen. nov. (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 5040(4): 539-564. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5040.4.5 -- Show included taxa

Sankaran, P. M., Caleb, J. T. D. & Sebastian, P. A. (2019b). On the taxonomic validity of Indian ground spiders: I. Genus Scopoides Platnick, 1989 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 4648(1): 155-164. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4648.1.8 -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. (1982b). Part 2. Family Gnaphosidae. In: The fauna of India. Spiders: Araneae. Vol. II. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, pp. 295-536. -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. & Gajbe, U. A. (1977a). Studies on some spiders of the genera Scopodes Chamberlin, Megamyrmecion Reuss, Scotophaeus Simon and Liodrassus Chamberlin (family: Gnaphosidae) from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 73: 13-22. -- Show included taxa

Truong, B. P., Le, T. T. S., Uyen, P. T. T., Phan, Q. T. & Hoang, Q. D. (2026). New synonymy and combinations in Megamyrmaekion Reuss, 1834 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 5853(3): 433-440. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5853.3.10 ZooBank: 28CC1CCE-2B3A-4F27-B5F1-2F3165006342 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-07-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Truong et al., 2026
2026-07-23	Species distribution update	Truong et al., 2026	Old value
2026-07-23	Species updated	Truong et al., 2026	Old value
2026-07-23	Species transferred to new genus	Truong et al., 2026		Species transferred from Drassodes Westring, 1851 to Megamyrmaekion Reuss, 1834
2021-09-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Sankaran & Caleb, 2021
2021-09-23	Species synonymy	Sankaran & Caleb, 2021		Drassodes kajalae synonymized with Drassodes luridus
2019-07-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2019b
2019-07-30	Species synonymy	Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2019b		Drassodes samarae synonymized with Drassodes luridus
2019-07-30	Species synonymy	Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2019b		Drassodes maitraiae synonymized with Drassodes luridus
2014-09-03	New taxonomic reference entry	Caleb, Karthikeyani & Muthuchelian, 2014