Taxon details

Family: Pholcidae / Genus: Mesabolivar

Mesabolivar aurantiacus (Mello-Leitão, 1930)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-11-23
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003466]
  • Distribution: Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guayana, Suriname, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola (MIZA), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela; m (105667 = MAGS 1162) of Autana autanensis (Huber & Villarreal, 2020)
  • Syntype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Blechroscelis aurantiaca Mello-Leitão, 1930, (00834); 2 m (destroyed by the fire 2018)
Taxonomic references
Blechroscelis aurantiacus Mello-Leitão, 1930b: 61, f. 13 (Dm).
Blechroscelis irroratus Mello-Leitão, 1947a: 160, f. 4-5 (Dmf).
Blechroscelis virescens Mello-Leitão, 1947a: 161, f. 6 (Dm).
Psilochorus cambridgei Mello-Leitão, 1947a: 163 (Dmf; preoccupied by Gertsch & Davis, 1937, see Psilochorus cambridgei) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056564].
Psilochorus browningi Roewer, 1951: 455 (replacement name for P. cambridgei).
Blechroscelis irrorata Brignoli, 1983c: 160.
Mesabolivar pseudoblechroscelis González-Sponga, 1998: 27, f. 40-41 (f) (f paratype misidentified per Huber, 2018: 29).
Mesabolivar aurantiacus Huber, 2000: 206, f. 42-43, 81, 801-810 (mf, T from Blechroscelis = Priscula, S).
Autana autanensis González-Sponga, 2011b: 40, pl. 1, f. 1-7 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:045009].
Mesabolivar aurantiacus Huber, Colmenares & Ramírez, 2014: 418 (S).
Mesabolivar aurantiacus Huber, 2018: 29, f. 78-81, 98-99, 106-107 (mf).
Mesabolivar aurantiacus Carvalho & Gasnier, 2019: CB26, f. 101-104 (mf).
References

Brignoli, P. M. (1983c). A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press, 755 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Carvalho, T. G. de & Gasnier, T. R. J. (2019). Illustrated inventory of spiders from Amazonas state, Brazil: 94 understory species from a forest fragment in Manaus. Scientia Amazonia 8(2): CB1-CB53. download pdf -- Show included taxa

González-Sponga, M. A. (2011b). Biodiversidad de Venezuela. Aracnidos. Descripcion de cinco nuevos géneros y cinco nuevas especies de la familia Pholcidae Koch, 1850. Acta Biologica Venezuelica 28: 39-51. download pdf -- Show included taxa

González-Sponga, M. A. (1998). Arácnidos de Venezuela. Cuatro nuevos géneros y cuatro nuevas especies de la familia Pholcidae Koch, 1850 (Araneae). Memorias de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle 57: 17-31. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. A. (2000). New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): A revision at generic level. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 254: 1-348. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)254<0001:NWPSAP>2.0.CO;2 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. A., Colmenares, P. A. & Ramírez, M. J. (2014). Fourteen new generic and ten new specific synonymies in Pholcidae (Araneae), and transfer of Mystes Bristowe to Filistatidae. Zootaxa 3847(3): 413-422. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3847.3.5 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. A. (2018). The South American spider genera Mesabolivar and Carapoia (Araneae, Pholcidae): new species and a framework for redrawing generic limits. Zootaxa 4395(1): 1-178. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4395.1.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1930b). Aranhas do Cuminá. Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 32: 51-75. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1947a). Some new pholcids of the British Museum. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 19: 159-164. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1951). Neue Namen einiger Araneen-Arten. Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins zu Bremen 32: 437-456. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2020-06-10 New taxonomic reference entry Carvalho & Gasnier, 2019 n/a
2018-03-20 New taxonomic reference entry Huber, 2018 n/a
2018-03-20 New taxonomic reference entry González-Sponga, 1998 n/a
2014-09-15 New taxonomic reference entry Huber, Colmenares & Ramírez, 2014 n/a
2014-09-15 Species synonymy Huber, Colmenares & Ramírez, 2014 Mesabolivar autanensis synonymized with Mesabolivar aurantiacus