World Spider Catalog

Melloinidae Perafán, Montes de Oca & Pérez-Miles, 2025

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: the valid name for this family is Glabropelmatidae Raven, 1985a: 122 (described as subfamily), an analogous case to Halonoproctidae, see ICZN article 40.1.

In synonymy:

Glabropelma Raven, 1985 = Melloina Brignoli, 1985 (Platnick, 1989b: 112)

Melloa Schenkel, 1953 = Melloina Brignoli, 1985 (Brignoli, 1985a: 380, preoccupied, replacement name)

Gen. Melloina Brignoli, 1985 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00295

type Melloa gracilis Schenkel, 1953; gender feminine

N.B.: transferred from the Theraphosidae to the Paratropididae by Raven, 1985a: 122, back to the Theraphosidae by Mori & Bertani, 2020: 35 and to the Melloinidae by Perafán, Montes de Oca & Pérez-Miles, 2025: 2341; replacement name for Melloa Schenkel, 1953a: 3 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04713], preoccupied in Opiliones by Roewer, 1930; objective senior synonym of Glabropelma Raven, 1985a: 122 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04168] (Platnick, 1989b: 112: superfluous replacement name for Melloa).

Melloina condesa Perafán, Montes de Oca & Pérez-Miles, 2025 | | Colombia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066095

Melloina condesa Perafán, Montes de Oca & Pérez-Miles, 2025: 2343, f. 2A-B, 4A-D, 5-7, 8A-D, 9A-D, 10 (Dmf) Original description

Melloina gracilis (Schenkel, 1953) | | Venezuela urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002511

Melloa gracilis Schenkel, 1953a: 4, f. 4a-c (Dm) Original description

Melloina gracilis Brignoli, 1985a: 380

Glabropelma gracilis Raven, 1985a: 122, f. 16-17 (m)

Melloina gracilis Raven, 1999: 819, f. 2A-H (m)

Melloina gracilis Goloboff-Szumik & Ríos-Tamayo, 2022: 251, f. 1A-F (Df)

Melloina pacifica Echeverri, Gómez Torres, Pinel & Perafán, 2023 | | Colombia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058314

Melloina pacifica Echeverri et al., 2023: 64, f. 11, 12A-E, 13A-B, 14A-E, 15A-C, 16A-C, 17A-F, 18A-E, 19A-C (Dmf) Original description

Melloina rickwesti Raven, 1999 | | Panama urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038312

Melloina rickwesti Raven, 1999: 821, f. 3A-E, 4A-E, 5A-D (Df) Original description

Melloina santuario Bertani, 2013 | | Venezuela urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:045801

Melloina santuario Bertani, 2013: 102, f. 1-17 (Dmf) Original description