World Spider Catalog

Genus: Melpomene O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 | Family: Agelenidae C. L. Koch, 1837

Melpomene bocadelmonte Rodríguez-Castro & Jolma, 2026

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:067398

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Distribution: Panama

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Holotype: Peabody Museum Yale (PMY), New Haven, Connecticut, USA f (ENT 502006, coll Petrunkevitch; Paratype of Melpomene panamana) - (Rodríguez-Castro, Rodríguez & Jolma, 2026)

Taxonomic References

Melpomene bocadelmonte Rodríguez-Castro & Jolma, in Rodríguez-Castro, Rodríguez & Jolma, 2026: 580, f. 5A-F, 6A-B (Df) Original description

References

Rodríguez-Castro, G., Rodríguez, E. & Jolma, G. (2026). Two new spider species of the genus Melpomene O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898, from Colombia and Panama with complementary description of M. panamana (Petrunkevitch, 1925) (Araneae: Agelenidae). Zootaxa 5881(4): 575-586. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5881.4.7 ZooBank: 6A86F60C-A183-4B8F-A182-E043E1A01F19 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-09-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Rodríguez-Castro, Rodríguez & Jolma, 2026
2026-09-28	New species inserted	Rodríguez-Castro, Rodríguez & Jolma, 2026

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