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Genus: Encoptarthria Main, 1954 | Family: Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892

Encoptarthria echemophthalma (Simon, 1908)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027480

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Described:

Distribution: Australia (Western Australia)

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Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) Megamyrmaecion [sic] echemophthalmum Simon, 1908, (28638) -
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

Megamyrmecion echemophthalmum Simon, 1908d: 396, f. 13 (Df) Original description

Encoptarthria serventyi Main, 1954: 44, pl. 4 f. 1-6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026429]

Encoptarthria echemophthalma Zakharov & Ovtsharenko, 2011: 327, f. 5a-b (Tf from Megamyrmecion, S, f. m)

References

Main, B. Y. (1954). Spiders and Opiliones. In: The Archipelago of the Recherche. Australian Geographic Society Reports 1, 37-53. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1908d). Araneae. 1re partie. In: Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds.) Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger südwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905. Band 2, Lieferung 12. Gustav Fischer, Jena, pp. 359-446. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.7416 [[2nd pdf lists the collection locations]] -- Show included taxa

Zakharov, B. P. & Ovtsharenko, V. I. (2011). Morphological organization of the male palpal organ in Australian ground spiders of the genera Anzacia, Intruda, Zelanda, and Encoptarthria (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Journal of Arachnology 39(2): 327-336. doi: 10.1636/CA10-91.1 -- Show included taxa

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