Taxon details

Family: Pholcidae / Genus: Mesabolivar

Mesabolivar difficilis (Mello-Leitão, 1918)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2018-03-22
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003477]
  • Distribution: Brazil
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Type deposit provide information
  • Syntype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Physocyclus difficilis Mello-Leitão, 1918, (00857); 1 m 1 f (probably destroyed by the fire 2018)
  • Syntype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Physocyclus difficilis Mello-Leitão, 1918, (00840); 4 m 4 f (destroyed by the fire 2018)
Taxonomic references
Physocyclus difficile Mello-Leitão, 1918c: 112, f. 28-29 (Df).
Mesabolivar difficilis Huber, 2000: 235, f. 924-933 (Tf from Physocyclus, Dm).
Mesabolivar difficilis Huber, 2018: 111, f. 459, 522-524 (f).
References

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. (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 (1918c). Scytodidas e pholcidas do Brasil. Revista do Museu Paulista 10: 83-144. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2018-03-22 New taxonomic reference entry Huber, 2018 n/a