Taxon details

Family: Mysmenidae / Genus: Mysmenopsis

Mysmenopsis penai Platnick & Shadab, 1978

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-07-24
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009265]
  • Distribution: Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil
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Taxonomic references
Mysmenopsis penai Platnick & Shadab, 1978a: 16, f. 46-48 (Dm).
Mysmenopsis penai Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015: 781, f. 60A-H, 61A-D, 62A-H, 131A, 140L (m).
Mysmenopsis penai Dupérré & Tapia, 2020a: 64, f. 190-199 (m, Df).
Mysmenopsis penai Pantoja, Bonaldo & Xavier, 2023: 73, f. 10C-D (m).
References

Dupérré, N. & Tapia, E. (2020a). Megadiverse Ecuador: a review of Mysmenopsis (Araneae, Mysmenidae) of Ecuador, with the description of twenty-one new kleptoparasitic spider species. Zootaxa 4761(1): 1-81. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4761.1.1 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

Pantoja, P., Bonaldo, A. B. & Xavier, C. (2023). On the symphytognathoid spider genus Mysmenopsis Simon, 1898 (Araneae: Mysmenidae) from the Brazilian Amazonian region: description of five new species and new records. Zootaxa 5319(1): 57-75. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5319.1.4 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Platnick, N. I. & Shadab, M. U. (1978a). A review of the spider genus Mysmenopsis (Araneae, Mysmenidae). American Museum Novitates 2661: 1-22. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-07-24 New taxonomic reference entry Pantoja, Bonaldo & Xavier, 2023 n/a
2023-07-24 Species distribution update Pantoja, Bonaldo & Xavier, 2023 n/a (Old value)
2020-04-07 New taxonomic reference entry Dupérré & Tapia, 2020a n/a
2020-04-07 First description of female Dupérré & Tapia, 2020a n/a (Old value)
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