Taxon details

Family: Trachelidae / Genus: Meriola

Meriola macrocephala (Nicolet, 1849)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2021-02-24
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:052837]
  • Distribution: Chile
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); f (00486, destroyed by the fire 2018) of Meriola barrosi
  • Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; 1m 2f (6994) (González Márquez, Grismado & Ramírez, 2021)
Taxonomic references
Clubiona macrocephala Nicolet, 1849: 448 (Dmf).
Trachelopachys macrocephalus Simon, 1897a: 185 (T from Clubiona).
Trachelopachys macrocephalus Simon, 1904e: 103 (S of Trachelopachys/Clubiona obliterata and ultima; rejected by Gonzáles Márquez, Grismado & Ramírez, 2021: 56, both to nomina dubia).
Trachelas altiformis Simon, 1904e: 104, f. 3 (m; misidentified per Gonzáles Márquez, Grismado & Ramírez, 2021: 56).
Cetonana barrosi Mello-Leitão, 1951: 337, f. 11-12 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025325].
Meriola barrosi Platnick & Ewing, 1995: 9, f. 1-2, 4-18 (Dm, f, T from Cetonana).
Meriola barrosi Ramírez, 2014: 264, f. 179A (f).
Meriola macrocephala González Márquez, Grismado & Ramírez, 2021: 56, f. 1g, 4c-d, g, 5a-f, 6a-i, 46a-h, 47a-g, 48a-d, f-j (mf, T from Trachelopachys, removed from nomen dubium contra Platnick & Ewing, 1995: 7, S of Meriola barrosi).
References

González Márquez, M. E., Grismado, C. J. & Ramírez, M. J. (2021). A taxonomic revision of the spider genus Meriola Banks (Araneae: Trachelidae). Zootaxa 4936(1): 1-113. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4936.1.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1951). Arañas de Maullin, colectadas por el ingeniero Rafael Barros V. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 51-53: 327-338. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Nicolet, H. (1849). Aracnidos. In: Gay, C. (ed.) Historia física y política de Chile. Zoología 3, 319-543, pl. 1-5. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.16172 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Platnick, N. I. & Ewing, C. (1995). A revision of the tracheline spiders (Araneae, Corinnidae) of southern South America. American Museum Novitates 3128: 1-41. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Ramírez, M. J. (2014). The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 390: 1-374. Link doi:10.1206/821.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1897a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-192. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1904e). Etude sur les arachnides du Chili recueillis en 1900, 1901 et 1902, par MM. C. Porter, Dr Delfin, Barcey Wilson et Edwards. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 48: 83-114. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2021-02-24 New taxonomic reference entry Simon, 1904e n/a
2021-02-24 Species synonymy González Márquez, Grismado & Ramírez, 2021 Meriola barrosi synonymized with Meriola macrocephala
2021-02-24 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Meriola ultima (Nicolet, 1849)
2021-02-24 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Meriola ultima (Nicolet, 1849)
2021-02-24 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Meriola obliterata (Nicolet, 1849)
2021-02-24 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Meriola obliterata (Nicolet, 1849)
2021-02-24 New taxonomic reference entry González Márquez, Grismado & Ramírez, 2021 n/a
2021-02-24 Species transferred to new genus González Márquez, Grismado & Ramírez, 2021 Species transferred from Trachelopachys to Meriola
2021-02-24 Species synonymy Simon, 1904e Trachelopachys obliterata synonymized with Trachelopachys macrocephalus
2021-02-24 New taxonomic reference entry Simon, 1904e n/a
2021-02-24 Species synonymy Simon, 1904e Trachelopachys ultima synonymized with Trachelopachys macrocephalus
2021-02-24 New taxonomic reference entry Simon, 1897a n/a
2021-02-24 New taxonomic reference entry Nicolet, 1849 n/a
2021-02-24 Species updated González Márquez, Grismado & Ramírez, 2021 New status (Old value)