Taxon details

Family: Mysmenidae / Genus: Microdipoena

Microdipoena elsae Saaristo, 1978

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-08-21
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009225]
  • Distribution: Seychelles, Congo, Comoros
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: University of Turku Zoological Museum (MZT/ZMUT), Turku, Finland; f (Zhang & Lin, 2023)
  • Paratype: University of Turku Zoological Museum (MZT/ZMUT), Turku, Finland; 3m 9f (Zhang & Lin, 2023)
  • Allotype: University of Turku Zoological Museum (MZT/ZMUT), Turku, Finland; m (Zhang & Lin, 2023)
Taxonomic references
Microdipoena elsae Saaristo, 1978: 124, f. 255-265 (Dmf).
Mysmena elsae Roberts, 1978: 932, f. 65-73 (mf).
Microdipoena elsae Saaristo, 2010: 92, f. 17.1-8 (mf).
Microdipoena elsae Lopardo, Giribet & Hormiga, 2011: 287, f. 9a (m).
Microdipoena elsae Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015: 783, f. 17A-D, 129D, 132A, 141M-N (mf).
Mysmena elsae Logunov, 2022a: 89, f. 18 (m).
Microdipoena elsae Zhang & Lin, 2023: 340, f. 3A-F, 4A-D, 5A-D, 6A-H, 7A-C (mf).
References

Logunov, D. V. (2022a). John Alan Murphy (1922–2021) and his contribution to arachnology. Arachnology 19(Special Issue): 77-103. doi:10.13156/arac.2022.19.sp1.77 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lopardo, L., Giribet, G. & Hormiga, G. (2011). Morphology to the rescue: molecular data and the signal of morphological characters in combined phylogenetic analyses — a case study from mysmenid spiders (Araneae, Mysmenidae), with comments on the evolution of web architecture. Cladistics 27(3): 278-330 & Supplementary material. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2010.00332.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lopardo, L. & Hormiga, G. (2015). Out of the twilight zone: phylogeny and evolutionary morphology of the orb-weaving spider family Mysmenidae, with a focus on spinneret spigot morphology in symphytognathoids (Araneae, Araneoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 173(3): 527-786. doi:10.1111/zoj.12199 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. (1978). Contributions à l'étude de la faune terrestre des îles granitiques de l'archipel des Séchelles (Mission P.L.G. Benoit - J.J. Van Mol 1972). Theridiidae, Mysmenidae and gen. Theridiosoma (Araneidae) (Araneae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 92: 902-939. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (1978). Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from the Seychelle islands, with notes on taxonomy. Annales Zoologici Fennici 15: 99-126. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (2010). Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zhang, Q. Q. & Lin, Y. C. (2023). Phylogenetic placement of eight poorly known spiders of Microdipoena (Araneae, Mysmenidae), with descriptions of five new species. ZooKeys 1175: 333-373. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1175.90920 download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-08-21 New taxonomic reference entry Zhang & Lin, 2023 n/a
2022-06-14 New taxonomic reference entry Logunov, 2022a n/a
2015-07-08 Species distribution update Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015 n/a (Old value)
2015-07-08 New taxonomic reference entry Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015 n/a