Taxon details

Family: Liocranidae / Genus: Mesiotelus

Mesiotelus mauritanicus Simon, 1909

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2025-04-07
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:024259]
  • Distribution: Spain, Portugal, France, Italy (Sicily), Morocco, Algeria
Type deposit provide information
  • It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France
Taxonomic references
Mesiotelus mauritanicus Simon, 1909b: 33 (Dm).
Mesiotelus mauritanicus Simon, 1932: 939, 970, f. 1440-1441 (m, Df).
Mesiotelus mauritanicus Hansen, 1991: 13, f. 12 (f).
Mesiotelus mauritanicus Lecigne, 2017: 33, f. 12C-H, 17C-D (mf).
Mesiotelus mauritanicus Wunderlich, 2023: 52, f. 93-98 (m).
Mesiotelus mauritanicus Lecigne, Moutaouakil & Lips, 2023: 71, f. 23 (f).
Mesiotelus mauritanicus Lecigne, Moutaouakil & Lips, 2025: 137, f. 81L-O (m).
References

Hansen, H. (1991). Ricerche faunistiche del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia nell'Isola di Pantelleria. XI - Arachnida: Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Araneae. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 40(for 1989): 7-19. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lecigne, S. (2017). Contribution a la connaissance de l’araneofaune (Araneae) de l’Algarve (Portugal). Description de Theridion bernardi n.sp. (Araneae: Theridiidae) et redécouverte d’Ozyptila perplexa Simon, 1875 (Araneae: Thomisidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 25-48. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lecigne, S., Moutaouakil, S. & Lips, J. (2023). Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – first note – on new records of cave spiders. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 66: 44-71. doi:10.30963/aramit6607 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lecigne, S., Moutaouakil, S. & Lips, J. (2025). Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1909b). Etude sur les arachnides recueillis au Maroc par M. Martinez de la Escalera en 1907. Memorias de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural (6) 1: 5-43. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1932). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 4e partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 773-978. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2023). Contribution to the spider (Araneida) fauna of the Algarve, Portugal, with notes on the phylogeny of the superfamily Araneoidea and the description of the new araneoid family Fonteferridae. Beiträge zur Araneologie 16: 4-112, 231-233. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2025-04-07 New taxonomic reference entry Lecigne, Moutaouakil & Lips, 2025 n/a
2023-12-31 New taxonomic reference entry Lecigne, Moutaouakil & Lips, 2023 n/a
2023-11-20 New taxonomic reference entry Wunderlich, 2023 n/a
2018-01-01 New taxonomic reference entry Lecigne, 2017 n/a