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Genus: Chumma Jocqué, 2001 | Family: Macrobunidae Bonnet, 1957

Chumma gastroperforata Jocqué, 2001

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037903

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa

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Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (131.692) - (Jocqué, 2001)
Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium 2m 1f (131.718, 169.753, 169.642) [the 2m belong to Chumma striata per Jocqué & Alderweireldt, 2018: 16] - (Jocqué, 2001)
Paratype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa 1m (97/464) - (Marais et al., 2013)

Taxonomic References

Chumma gastroperforata Jocqué, 2001: 486, f. 8b, 9a-b, 10a-e, 11a-b (Dmf) Original description

Chumma gastroperforata Jocqué & Alderweireldt, 2018: 15, f. 7H (f)

Chumma gastroperforata Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021b: 12, 5 f. (mf)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H., Lotz, L. N. & Jocqué, R. (2021b). The Amaurobiidae of South Africa. Version 2. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 26 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5981342 [[the 2nd pdf is a second "version 2" from 2022, which differs only slightly and has no different doi]] -- Show included taxa

Jocqué, R. (2001). Chummidae, a new spider family (Arachnida, Araneae) from South Africa. Journal of Zoology, London 254(4): 481-493. doi: 10.1017/S095283690100098X -- Show included taxa

Jocqué, R. & Alderweireldt, M. (2018). New Chummidae (Araneae): quadrupling the size of the clade. European Journal of Taxonomy 412: 1-25. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2018.412 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-09-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Jocqué & Alderweireldt, 2018
2022-06-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021b