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

Melpomene panamana (Petrunkevitch, 1925)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021065

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Distribution: Panama

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Holotype: Peabody Museum Yale (PMY), New Haven, Connecticut, USA f (ENT 502007, coll. Petrunkevitch) - (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942b)

Taxonomic References

Agelena panamana Petrunkevitch, 1925a: 161, f. 82 (Df) Original description

Melpomene panamana Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942b: 241

Melpomene panamana Rodríguez-Castro, Rodríguez & Jolma, 2026: 583, f. 7A-F, 8A-B (f)

References

Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W. (1942b). Agelenidae of the genera Hololena, Novalena, Rualena and Melpomene. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 35(2): 203-241. doi: 10.1093/aesa/35.2.203 -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1925a). Arachnida from Panama. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 27: 51-248. -- Show included taxa

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

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Edit History

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