World Spider Catalog

Genus: Megamyrmaekion Reuss, 1834 | Family: Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892

Megamyrmaekion tikaderi Gajbe, 1987

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027836

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Described:

Distribution: India

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India f (5145/18) - (Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2019b)
Paratype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India 1m 1jf (5146/18) - (Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2019b)
Allotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India m (5146/18) - (Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2019b)

Taxonomic References

Scopodes tikaderi Gajbe, 1987c: 285, f. 1-6 (Dmf) Original description

Scopodes tikaderi Gajbe, 2007: 463, f. 103-108 (m)

Megamyrmaekion tikaderi Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2019b: 159, f. 17-18, 22-26 (mf, T from Scopoides)

References

Gajbe, U. A. (1987c). A new Scopodes spider from India (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Bulletin of the Zoological Survey of India 8: 285-287. -- Show included taxa

Gajbe, U. A. (2007). Araneae: Arachnida. In: Fauna of Madhya Pradesh (including Chhattisgarh), State Fauna Series. Zoological Survey of India Kolkata 15(1), 419-540. -- Show included taxa

Sankaran, P. M., Caleb, J. T. D. & Sebastian, P. A. (2019b). On the taxonomic validity of Indian ground spiders: I. Genus Scopoides Platnick, 1989 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 4648(1): 155-164. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4648.1.8 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2019-07-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2019b
2019-07-30	Species transferred to new genus	Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2019b		Species transferred from Scopoides to Megamyrmaekion