Taxon details

Family: Tetrablemmidae / Genus: Shearella

Shearella browni (Shear, 1978)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2025-05-16
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:004191]
  • Distribution: Madagascar
  • External Resources *:
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA; m (Martínez, 2025)
Taxonomic references
Monoblemma browni Shear, 1978: 23, f. 57-61 (Dm).
Shearella browni Lehtinen, 1981: 54 (T from Monoblemma).
Monoblemma browni Sankaran & Sebastian, 2016: 447 (T from Shearella).
Shearella browni Martínez, 2025: 292, f. 17A-J, 18A-F, 19A-D, 20D, G (m, Df, T from Monoblemma).
References

Lehtinen, P. T. (1981). Spiders of the Oriental-Australian region. III. Tetrablemmidae, with a world revision. Acta Zoologica Fennica 162: 1-151. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Martínez, L. (2025). A revision of the genus Monoblemma Gertsch, 1941 (Araneae: Tetrablemmidae) in Central America and the Caribbean. Zootaxa 5636(2): 287-315. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5636.2.4 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sankaran, P. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2016). A checklist of Indian armored spiders (Araneae, Tetrablemmidae) with the description of a new species from the Western Ghats. Zootaxa 4084(3): 443-450. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4084.3.9 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Shear, W. A. (1978). Taxonomic notes on the armored spiders of the families Tetrablemmidae and Pacullidae. American Museum Novitates 2650: 1-46. 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
2025-05-16 New taxonomic reference entry Martínez, 2025 n/a
2025-05-16 Species transferred to new genus Martínez, 2025 Species transferred from Monoblemma to Shearella
2025-05-16 First description of female Martínez, 2025 n/a (Old value)
2016-03-03 New taxonomic reference entry Sankaran & Sebastian, 2016 n/a
2016-03-03 Species transferred to new genus Sankaran & Sebastian, 2016 Species transferred from Shearella to Monoblemma