Pozonia bacillifera (Simon, 1897)

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Described:

Distribution: Trinidad, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay

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Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f (8459) - (Levi, 1993b)
Taxonomic References
Araneus bacillifer Simon, 1895a: 819, f. 870 (nomen nudum)
Araneus bacillifer Simon, 1897b: 475 (Df) Original description
Aranea bacillifera Strand, 1916b: 110
Pozonia bacillifera Levi, 1993b: 60, f. 11-14 (f, T from Wixia)
Pozonia bacillifera Magalhaes & Santos, 2011a: 112, f. 1-5 (Dm)
Pozonia bacillifera Estrada-Alvarez, 2015: 54, f. 16-19 (f)
Pozonia bacillifera Díaz-Guevara & Dupérré, 2025: 592, f. 4A-E (m)
References

Díaz-Guevara, D. R. & Dupérré, N. (2025). A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660(4): 587-595. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9 -- Show included taxa

Estrada-Alvarez, J. C. (2015). Nueva especie de Pozonia Schenkel (Araneae: Araneidae) de México. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 27: 51-54. -- Show included taxa

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. -- Show included taxa

Magalhaes, I. L. F. & Santos, A. J. (2011a). Description of the male of Pozonia bacillifera (Araneae: Araneidae). Zoologia (Curitiba) 28: 112-114. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1895a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 761-1084. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1897b). Etudes arachnologiques. 27e mémoire (1). XLII. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'ordre des Araneae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 65(3, 1896): 465-510, pl. 12-13. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1916b). Systematische-faunistische Studien über paläarktische, afrikanische und amerikanische Spinnen des Senckenbergischen Museums. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 81(A9): 1-153. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-07-12 New taxonomic reference entry Díaz-Guevara & Dupérré, 2025
2016-02-15 New taxonomic reference entry Estrada-Alvarez, 2015

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