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Genus: Gephyrellula Strand, 1932 | Family: Philodromidae Thorell, 1869

Gephyrellula violacea (Mello-Leitão, 1918)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029694

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil f (921 = Mello-Leitão Private Collection 371, lost) - (Santos & Rheims, 2018)
Holotype: Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZSP/MZUSP), Brazil m of Gephyrellula paulistana - (Santos & Rheims, 2018)

Taxonomic References

Gephyrella violacea Mello-Leitão, 1918b: 122 (Df) Original description

Gephyrellula violacea Strand, 1932: 137 (generic replacement name)

Gephyrellula paulistana Soares, 1943a: 10, f. 8-9 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029693]

Gephyrellula violacea Santos & Rheims, 2018: 383, f. 1-23 (mf, S of Gephyrellula violacea)

Gephyrellula violacea Schinelli et al., 2025: 95, f. 2B, 4B (mf)

References

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1918b). Un genero novo de Thomisidas da sub-familia Philodrominae. Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Sciencias 2: 121-123. -- Show included taxa

Santos, F. H. & Rheims, C. A. (2018). Taxonomic revision of the genus Gephyrellula Strand, 1932 (Arachnida, Araneae, Philodromidae). Zootaxa 4527(3): 381-391. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4527.3.7 -- Show included taxa

Schinelli, H. B. P., Prado, A. W. do, Baptista, R. L. C. & Takiya, D. M. (2025). A new species and the phylogenetic placement of the Neotropical genus Gephyrellula Strand, 1932 (Araneae, Philodromidae). Evolutionary Systematics 9: 87-98. doi: 10.3897/evolsyst.9.143758 -- Show included taxa

Soares, B. M. (1943a). Novos thomisidas brasilieros. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 3: 1-18. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1932). Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica, III, IV. Folia Zoologica et Hydrobiologica, Rigā 4: 133-147, 193-196. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-04-08	New taxonomic reference entry	Schinelli et al., 2025
2025-04-08	Species distribution update	Schinelli et al., 2025	Old value
2024-12-24	Species updated		Old value	Error corrected
2018-12-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Santos & Rheims, 2018
2018-12-06	Species synonymy	Santos & Rheims, 2018		Gephyrellula paulistana synonymized with Gephyrellula violacea