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Genus: Mazax O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 | Family: Corinnidae Karsch, 1880

Mazax acanthaspis (Simon, 1896)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:024918

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Described:

Distribution: Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany m (A0015362) of Mazax akephaloi - (Perger & Pett, 2022)
Allotype: Colección Boliviana de Fauna (CBF), La Paz, Bolivia f of Mazax akephaloi - (Perger & Pett, 2022)
Paratype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany 1m (A0015360) of Mazax akephaloi - (Perger & Pett, 2022)
Paratype: Colección Boliviana de Fauna (CBF), La Paz, Bolivia 9m 14f of Mazax akephaloi - (Perger & Pett, 2022)
Paratype: Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay (MNHNP [IBNP]), San Lorenzo, Paraguay (Syn: Mazax akephaloi) 2m (IBNP-JAKCR 000.00.2.717, 719) - (Perger & Pett, 2022)
Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f (10348) -

Taxonomic References

Apochinomma acanthaspis Simon, 1896b: 408 (Df) Original description

Apochinomma acanthaspis Simon, 1897a: 160, f. 164

Mazax akephaloi Perger & Pett, 2022: 582, f. 2A-B, 3A-B, 4A-D, 5A-B, 7B, D (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054351]

Mazax acanthaspis Silva-Junior et al., 2024: 233, f. 2B, 9A-E, 10A-J, 11A-B (mf, T from Apochinomma, S of Mazax akephaloi)

References

Perger, R. & Pett, B. L. (2022). Mazax akephaloi sp. nov. – a new Neotropical spider species resembling 'headless' Ectatomma ants (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae). Zootaxa 5450(4): 579-590. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5150.4.6 -- Show included taxa

Silva-Junior, C. J., Martínez, L., Villarreal, E. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2024). Two fancy spines and a collar: a taxonomic review of the myrmecomorphic spider genus Mazax O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae) in South America. European Journal of Taxonomy 968: 219-255. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2024.968.2731 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1896b). Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Clubionidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 40(9): 400-422. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1897a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-192. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-11-14	Species synonymy	Silva-Junior et al., 2024		Mazax akephaloi synonymized with Mazax acanthaspis
2024-11-14	New taxonomic reference entry	Silva-Junior et al., 2024
2024-11-14	Species transferred to new genus	Silva-Junior et al., 2024		Species transferred from Apochinomma to Mazax
2024-11-14	Species distribution update	Silva-Junior et al., 2024	Old value