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Genus: Diplura C. L. Koch, 1850 | Family: Dipluridae Simon, 1889

Diplura catharinensis (Mello-Leitão, 1927)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000264

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZSP/MZUSP), Brazil f - (Raven, 1985a)
Holotype: Instituto Butantan, São Paulo (IBSP), Brazil f of Prosharmonicon maculatum - (Raven, 1985a)

Taxonomic References

Pseudhermachura catharinensis Mello-Leitão, 1927c: 402 (Df) Original description

Prosharmonicon maculatum Mello-Leitão, 1938b: 313 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000271]

Pseudohermachura catharinensis Roewer, 1942a: 184 (lapsus)

Prosharmonicum maculatum Bonnet, 1958: 3780 (unjustified emendation)

Harmonicon catharinensis Bücherl, 1962a: 261 (S of Prosharmonicon maculatum)

Diplura catharinensis Pedroso, Giupponi & Baptista, 2018: 69 (S of Prosharmonicon maculatum confirmed)

References

Bonnet, P. (1958). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) (4me partie: N-S). Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 3027-4230. -- Show included taxa

Bücherl, W. (1962a). Estudos sistemáticos sôbre aranhas caranguejeiras. I. Revisão dos gêneros Pseudohermachura Mello-Leitão 1927 (Ctenizidae, Ctenizinae, Nemesieae) e Prosharmonicon Mello-Leitão 1937 (Dipluridae, Diplurinae, Diplureae, Trechonini). Arquivos de Higiene e Saúde Pública 27: 259-261. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1927c). Arachnideos de Santa Catharina (Brasil). Revista do Museu Paulista 15: 393-418. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1938b). Um genero e sete especies novas de aranhas. Memórias do Instituto Butantan 11: 311-317. -- Show included taxa

Pedroso, D. R., Giupponi, A. P. L. & Baptista, R. L. C. (2018). Comments on the genus Diplura C. L. Koch, 1850, with description of two new species (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae). ZooKeys 771: 57-71. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.771.24921 -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1942a). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940. 1. Band (Mesothelae, Orthognatha, Labidognatha: Dysderaeformia, Scytodiformia, Pholciformia, Zodariiformia, Hersiliaeformia, Argyopiformia). Natura, Buchhandlung für Naturkunde und exakte Wissenschaften Paul Budy Bremen, 1040 pp. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2018-07-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Bücherl, 1962a
2018-07-11	Species synonymy	Bücherl, 1962a		Diplura maculata synonymized with Diplura catharinensis