Taxon details

Family: Mimetidae / Genus: Mimetus

Mimetus legendrei Emerit, 1980

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: nomen dubium
  • Described: j
  • Last updated: 2023-02-10
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053392]
  • Distribution: Madagascar
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; jf (Sherwood, 2023a)
Taxonomic references
Mimetus legendrei Emerit, 1980: 58, f. 3E (Dj).
Mimetus legendrei Brignoli, 1983c: 282 (nomen nudum; rejected by Sherwood, 2023: 3).
Mimetus legendrei Sherwood, 2023a: 3 (removed from nomen nudum, nomen dubium).
References

Brignoli, P. M. (1983c). A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press, 755 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Emerit, M. (1980). Une lacune de moins dans la faune malgache: La famille des Mimetidae (Araneae). 5ème Colloque d'Arachnologie d'Expression Française, Barcelona, pp. 55-63. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D. (2023a). On the availability of Madagascan pirate spider names in the 1980 work 'Une lacune de La famille moins dans la des Mimetidae' with taxonomic notes on two enigmatic species (Araneae: Mimetidae). ZooNova 23: 1-5. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7628285 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-02-10 Taxon is nomen dubium Sherwood, 2023a Mimetus legendrei Emerit, 1980 declared a nomen dubium
2023-02-10 New taxonomic reference entry Sherwood, 2023a n/a
2023-02-10 Species updated Sherwood, 2023a New status (Old value)
2023-02-10 New taxonomic reference entry Brignoli, 1983c n/a