Mallos niveus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902

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Described:

Distribution: Canada, USA, Mexico

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Taxonomic References
Mallos niveus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902: 308, pl. 35, f. 1 (Dm) Original description
Dictyna nivea F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902a: 358, pl. 33, f. 20-21 (m, Df)
Mallos alpheus Chamberlin, 1948: 14, pl. 3, f. 31-32 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054593]
Emblyna urica Chamberlin, 1948: 13, pl. 6, f. 63 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054597]
Mallos niveus Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 41, pl. 8, f. 5-8 (mf, S of Emblyna urica and Mallos alpheus)
Mallos niveus Bond & Opell, 1997: 428, f. 9, 15, 75-80 (mf)
Mallos niveus Montana et al., 2025: 17, f. 9D, 10E-F, 25A-F (m)
References

Bond, J. E. & Opell, B. D. (1997). Systematics of the spider genera Mallos and Mexitlia (Araneae, Dictynidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 119(4): 389-445. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1997.tb00141.x -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. (1948). The genera of North American Dictynidae. Bulletin of the University of Utah 38(15): 1-31. -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. & Gertsch, W. J. (1958). The spider family Dictynidae in America north of Mexico. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 116: 1-152. [[second pdf contains better scans of the plates]] -- Show included taxa

Montana, K. O., Cala-Riquelme, F., Crews, S. C., Gorneau, J. A., Al-Jamal, A. M., Alequín, L. D., Spagna, J. C., Ballarin, F. & Esposito, L. A. (2025). Tailor's drawer no more: a reappraisal of the spider family Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 sensu lato. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204(2, zlaf007): 1-97. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf007 [[2nd pdf contains the Suppl. Figs 1-5]] -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1902a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 313-424. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1902). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 305-316. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

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2025-07-07 New taxonomic reference entry Montana et al., 2025

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