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Genus: Megalostrata Karsch, 1880 | Family: Corinnidae Karsch, 1880

Megalostrata raptor L. Koch, 1866

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025210

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Described:

Distribution: Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Curaçao

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK m (1916.6.1.801) - (Bonaldo, 2000)
Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany m (2142) of Megalostrata venifica - (Bonaldo, 2000)
Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK m (1091.3.3.156) of Delozeugma formidabile - (Bonaldo, 2000)
Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK m (1901.3.3.157) of Delozeugma mordicans - (Bonaldo, 2000)
Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f (probably lost) of Chemmis frederici - (Bonaldo, 2000)
Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany f (8672) of Megalostrata sperata - (Bonaldo, 2000)
Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f (1901.2.3.292) of Chemmis punctigera - (Bonaldo, Galán-Sánchez & García, 2024)

Taxonomic References

Hypsinotus raptor L. Koch, 1866: 274, pl. 11, f. 174-175 (Dmf) Original description

Megalostrata venifica Karsch, 1880c: 378, pl. 12, f. 5 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025311]

Delozeugma formidabile O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893b: 106, pl. 14, f. 5 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025306]

Delozeugma mordicans O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897c: 225, pl. 28, f. 1 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025308]

Megalostrata mordicans Simon, 1898a: 197

Megalostrata venenifica Simon, 1898a: 209 (lapsus)

Chemmis frederici Simon, 1898a: 215 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:024192]

Menalippe punctigera O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898a: 285, pl. 32, f. 7 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060863]

Megalostrata formidabilis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899a: 63

Chemmis frederici F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900: 92, pl. 7, f. 2, pl. 8, f. 1 (f, S of Menalippe punctigera)

Corinna raptor Petrunkevitch, 1911: 469

Chemmis punctigera Banks, 1914a: 677, pl. 28, f. 8 (f)

Megalostrata sperata Kraus, 1955b: 48, f. 125 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025310]

Corinna raptrix Bonnet, 1956: 1215 (invalid emendation)

Megalostrata mordicans Wunderlich, 1988: 202, f. 540 (m)

Megalostrata raptrix Bonaldo, 2000: 118, f. 110-111, 302-309 (mf, S of Chemmis frederici, Megalostrata formidabilis, M. mordicans, M. sperata and M. venifica)

Megalostrata raptor Bonaldo, Galán-Sánchez & García, 2024: 497, f. 1A, 2A-C, 3A-B (m)

References

Banks, N. (1914a). Notes on some Costa Rican spiders. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 65(3, 1913): 676-687, pl 28-30. -- Show included taxa

Bonaldo, A. B. (2000). Taxonomia da subfamília Corinninae (Araneae, Corinnidae) nas regiões Neotropica e Neárctica. Iheringia, Série Zoologia 89: 3-148. doi: 10.1590/S0073-47212000000200001 -- Show included taxa

Bonaldo, A. B., Galán-Sánchez, M. A. & García, F. (2024). Advances on the taxonomy of Megalostrata Karsch, 1880 (Araneae, Corinnidae, Corinninae), with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 5458(4): 495-523. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5458.4.2 -- Show included taxa

Bonnet, P. (1956). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) (2me partie: C-F). Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 919-1926. -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1880c). Arachnologische Blätter (Decas I). Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften, Dritte Folge 5: 373-409, pl. 12. -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1866). Die Arachniden-Familie der Drassiden. Nürnberg, Hefte 1-6, pp. 1-304. -- Show included taxa

Kraus, O. (1955b). Spinnen aus El Salvador (Arachnoidea, Araneae). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 493: 1-112. -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1893b). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 105-120. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1897c). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 225-232. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1898a). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 233-288, pl. 29-39. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1899a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 41-88, pl. 2-6. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1900). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 89-192, pl. 6-15. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1898a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 193-380. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1988). Die fossilen Spinnen im Dominikanischen Bernstein. Published by the author Straubenhardt, Germany, 378 pp. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-05-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Bonaldo, Galán-Sánchez & García, 2024
2024-05-30	Species distribution update	Bonaldo, Galán-Sánchez & García, 2024	Old value