Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Wixia

Wixia proxima Mello-Leitão, 1940

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: nomen dubium
  • Described: f
  • Last updated: 2023-05-04
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057972]
  • Distribution: Brazil
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Wixia proxima Mello-Leitão, 1940, (58352); 1 f (probably destroyed by the fire 2018)
Taxonomic references
Wixia proxima Mello-Leitão, 1940d: 207 (Df).
Wixia proxima Levi, 1993b: 56 (type lost, unrecognizable species = nomen dubium).
References

Levi, H. W. (1993b). The Neotropical orb-weaving spiders of the genera Wixia, Pozonia, and Ocrepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 153: 47-141. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1940d). Aranhas do Espírito Santo coligidas por Mario Rosa, em 1936 e 1937. Arquivos de Zoologia do Estado de Sao Paulo 2: 199-214. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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