World Spider Catalog

Genus: Metagonia Simon, 1893 | Family: Pholcidae C. L. Koch, 1850

Metagonia reederi Gertsch & Peck, 1992

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003559

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Described:

Distribution: Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA m (N.B.: not f as stated by Gertsch & Peck, 1992) - (Huber et al., 2022)
Paratype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA 1m 12f 4j - (Huber et al., 2022)

Taxonomic References

Metagonia reederi Gertsch & Peck, 1992: 1195, f. 41-45 (Dmf) Original description

Metagonia reederi Peck & Finston, 1993: 26, f. 2 (mf)

Metagonia reederi Huber et al., 2022: 657, f. 22-23, 28-29, 32-36, 47-48 (mf)

References

Gertsch, W. J. & Peck, S. B. (1992). The pholcid spiders of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (Araneae: Pholcidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 70(6): 1185-1199. doi: 10.1139/z92-166 -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. A., Meng, G. L., Acurio, A. E., Astrin, J. J., Inclán, D. J., Izquierdo, M. A. & Valdez-Mondragón, A. (2022). Metagonia spiders of Galápagos: blind cave-dwellers and their epigean relatives (Araneae, Pholcidae). Invertebrate Systematics 36(7): 647-678. doi: 10.1071/IS21082 -- Show included taxa

Peck, S. B. & Finston, T. L. (1993). Galapagos Islands troglobites: the questions of tropical troglobites, parapatric distributions with eyed-sister-species, and their origin by parapatric speciation. Mémoires de Biospéologie 20: 19-37. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2022-08-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Huber et al., 2022