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Genus: Exechocentrus Simon, 1889 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Exechocentrus lancearius Simon, 1889

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015999

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Described:

Distribution: Madagascar

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Type Repository Provide information

Neotype: Natural History Museum of Denmark (NHMD), Copenhagen = Zoological Museum of Natural History, University of Copenhagen (ZMUC/ZMK), Denmark f (21482) - (Scharff & Hormiga, 2012)
Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France j (ES 8339) - (Emerit, 1980b)
Paratype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany 1j (23919; presumably no type status) - (Scharff & Hormiga, 2012)

Taxonomic References

Exechocentrus lancearius Simon, 1889b: 227 (Df; j per Emerit, 1980b: 14) Original description

Exechocentrus lancearius Simon, 1895a: 888, f. 951-953 (f; j per Emerit, 1980b: 14)

Exechocentrus lancearius Emerit, 1978: 364, f. 4 (f habitus)

Exechocentrus lancearius Emerit, 1980b: 14, f. 1-2, pl. 1A, D-E (j)

Exechocentrus lancearius Scharff & Hormiga, 2012: 110, f. 1A-B, 2A-B, 3A-C, 4A-B, 5A-B (Df)

References

Emerit, M. (1978). Deux sous families d'Araneidae (les Cyrtarachninae et Mastophorinae) nouvelles pour Madagascar. A propos de prétendues lacunes faunistiques de la région malgache. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London 42: 359-365. -- Show included taxa

Emerit, M. (1980b). Exechocentrus lancearius Simon, 1889: la redécouverte d'une araignée rare de Madagascar; considérations sur les Exechocentreae. Revue Arachnologique 3(1): 13-23. -- Show included taxa

Scharff, N. & Hormiga, G. (2012). First evidence of aggressive chemical mimicry in the Malagasy orb weaving spider Exechocentrus lancearius Simon, 1889 (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae) and description of a second species in the genus. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 70(2): 107-118. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1889b). Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXXI. Descriptions d'espèces et the genres nouveaux de Madagascar et de Mayotte. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 8: 223-236. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1895a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 761-1084. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-04-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Emerit, 1980b
2019-10-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Emerit, 1978