Taxon details
Meotipa pulcherrima (Mello-Leitão, 1917)
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2024-12-22
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007262]
- Distribution: Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Indonesia (New Guinea), Pacific Is. Introduced to the Americas and Tropical Africa
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- Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Argyrodes pulcherrimus Mello-Leitão, 1917, (00583); 1 f (destroyed by the fire 2018)
Meotipa clementinae Petrunkevitch, 1930a: 212, f. 61-62 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062894].
Meotipa clementinae Schmidt, 1956a: 30, f. 6 (Dm).
Meotipa clementinae Schmidt, 1956f: 240, f. 1 (f).
Chrysso clementinae Levi, 1962b: 231, f. 71-75 (mf).
Chrysso pulcherrima Levi, 1967b: 26 (removed from S of Argyrodes elevatus, rejecting Exline & Levi, 1962: 135, S of Meotipa clementinae).
Chrysso pulcherrima Levi, 1967c: 182, f. 28-31 (mf).
Chrysso mussau Chrysanthus, 1975: 48, f. 174-177 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007253].
Chrysso pulcherrima Zhu & Zhang, 1992: 23, f. 3A-D (mf).
Chrysso clementinae Müller, 1992: 99, f. 5-6 (f).
Chrysso pulcherrima Yoshida, 1993c: 30, f. 10-12, 20 (mf).
Chrysso pulcherrima Zhu, 1998: 54, f. 28A-D (mf).
Chrysso pulcherrima Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 103, f. 50A-B, J (mf).
Chrysso pulcherrima Yoshida, 2003a: 126, f. 337, 341-342 (mf, S of Chrysso mussau).
Chrysso pulcherrima Seo, 2005a: 123, f. 2A-B (m).
Meotipa pulcherrima Yoshida, 2009b: 378, f. 211-213 (mf, T from Chrysso).
Meotipa pulcherrima Kim, 2021: 79, f. 32A-F (f).
Meotipa pulcherrima Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021z: 50, 5 f. (mf).
Meotipa pulcherrima Deng et al., 2022: 158, f. 2A-H, 9C-D (f).
Meotipa pulcherrima Noguchi et al., 2023: 144, f. 3F (f).
Chrysso pulcherrima Baert et al., 2023: 30, f. 111A-D (mf).
Baert, L., Maelfait, J.-P., Desender, K., Hendrickx, F., Dekoninck, W., Berthet, M., Bouckaert, K., Caudron, J. & Leclercq, M. (2023). Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands. Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1-188. [includes figs of 5 undescribed species] 
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Chrysanthus, P. (1975). Further notes on the spiders of New Guinea II (Araneae, Tetragnathidae, Theridiidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen 140: 1-50. -- Show included taxa
Deng, Z. W., Agnarsson, I., Chen, Z. Q. & Liu, J. (2022). Meotipa species (Araneae, Theridiidae) from China. ZooKeys 1082: 153-178. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1082.75400 -- Show included taxa
Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021z). The Theridiidae of South Africa. Part 1 A-P. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 69 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7515890 -- Show included taxa
Kim, S. T. (2021). Spiders V. Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae, Amaurobiidae, Eresidae, Zoropsidae, Anyphaenidae. Invertebrate Fauna of Korea 21(47): 1-230. [first pdf is reduced in size] -- Show included taxa
Levi, H. W. (1962b). More American spiders of the genus Chrysso (Araneae, Theridiidae). Psyche, Cambridge 69(4): 209-237. doi:10.1155/1962/32404 -- Show included taxa
Levi, H. W. (1967b). Habitat observations, records, and new South American theridiid spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 136: 21-38. -- Show included taxa
Levi, H. W. (1967c). Cosmopolitan and pantropical species of theridiid spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae). Pacific Insects 9: 175-186. -- Show included taxa
Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1917a). Notas arachnologicas. 5, Especies novas ou pouco conhecidas do Brasil. Brotéria (Ser. Zool.) 15: 74-102. -- Show included taxa
Müller, H.-G. (1992). Spiders from Colombia XVI. Miscellaneous genera of Theridiidae (Arachnida: Araneae). Faunistische Abhandlungen, Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden 18: 97-102. -- Show included taxa
Noguchi, S., Shida, R., Shimooka, S., Mezawa, O., Iwanaga, S., Eto, S., Shiogami, T., Kishida & Suzuki, Y. (2023). A list of spiders collected from Kyushu University Ito Campus, Fukuoka, Japan. Kishidaia 122: 141-155. -- Show included taxa
Petrunkevitch, A. (1930a). The spiders of Porto Rico. Part two. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 30: 159-356. -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. (1956a). Genus- und Speziesdiagnosen neuer, mit Bananen eingeschleppter Spinnen nebst Mitteilung über das Auffinden der Männchen zweier Spinnenarten. Zoologischer Anzeiger 157: 24-31. -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. (1956f). Liste der in den Jahren 1953 and 1954 mit Bananen nach Hamburg eingeschleppten Spinnen aus Franz.-Guinea. Zoologischer Anzeiger 157: 239-241. -- Show included taxa
Seo, B. K. (2005a). Four species of theridiid spider (Araneae) from Korea with a description of new species, Robertus naejangensis. Entomological Research 35(2): 121-126. doi:10.1111/j.1748-5967.2005.tb00147.x -- Show included taxa
Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa
Yoshida, H. (1993c). East Asian species of the genus Chrysso (Araneae: Theridiidae). Acta Arachnologica 42(1): 27-34. doi:10.2476/asjaa.42.27 -- Show included taxa
Yoshida, H. (2003a). The spider family Theridiidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Japan. Arachnological Society of Japan, 224 pp. -- Show included taxa
Yoshida, H. (2009b). Uloboridae, Theridiidae, Ctenidae. In: Ono, H. (ed.) The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, pp. 142-147, 356-393, 467-468. -- Show included taxa
Zhu, M. S. & Zhang, Y. Q. (1992). Notes of some species of Theridiidae in Guangxi (Arachnida: Araneae). Journal of the Guangxi Agricultural College 11(1): 20-29. -- Show included taxa
Zhu, M. S. (1998). Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae. Science Press, Beijing, 436 pp. -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-12-22 | New taxonomic reference entry | Baert et al., 2023 | n/a |
| 2023-07-06 | New taxonomic reference entry | Noguchi et al., 2023 | n/a |
| 2023-02-10 | New taxonomic reference entry | Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021z | n/a |
| 2022-07-19 | New taxonomic reference entry | Kim, 2021 | n/a |
| 2022-01-21 | New taxonomic reference entry | Deng et al., 2022 | n/a |
| 2022-01-21 | Species distribution update | Deng et al., 2022 | n/a (Old value) |
| 2016-11-30 | Species transferred to new genus | Yoshida, 2009b | Species transferred from Chrysso to Meotipa |