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Genus: Medmassa Simon, 1887 | Family: Corinnidae Karsch, 1880

Medmassa semiaurantiaca Simon, 1909

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025299

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Described:

Distribution: Guinea-Bissau, Ghana, Central African Rep., Ethiopia, DR Congo, Kenya, Botswana, South Africa

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Type Repository Provide information

It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -

Taxonomic References

Medmassa semiaurantiaca Simon, 1909f: 376 (Df) Original description

Medmassa hiekae Berland, 1922: 74, pl. A4, f. 3 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025290]

Medmassa semiaurantiaca Haddad & Bosselaers, 2010: 3, f. 1-14 (Dm, f, S of Medmassa hiekae)

Medmassa semiaurantiaca Ramírez, 2014: 230, f. 158A-B (m)

Medmassa semiaurantiaca Haddad et al., 2023: 55, p. 54: 1-2, p. 55: 1-9 (mf)

References

Berland, L. (1922). Araignées. In: Voyage de M. le Baron Maurice de Rothschild en Éthiopie et en Afrique orientale anglaise (1904-1905). Résultats scientifiques. Animeux articulés. Première partie. Imprimerie nationale, Paris, pp. 43-90, pl. A1-A5. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.66850 -- Show included taxa

Haddad, C. R. & Bosselaers, J. (2010). A revision of the genus Medmassa Simon, 1887 (Araneae: Corinnidae) in the Afrotopical Region. Zootaxa 2361: 1-12. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2361.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Haddad, C. R., Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2023). The Corinnidae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 72 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.8300753 -- Show included taxa

Ramírez, M. J. (2014). The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 390: 1-374. doi: 10.1206/821.1 (External link) -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1909f). Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 2e partie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 44: 335-449. [[year corrected from 1910 to 1909, see pp. 337, 353, 369, etc.; following Bonnet, contra Roewer]] -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2023-08-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Haddad et al., 2023
2014-07-25	New taxonomic reference entry	Ramírez, 2014