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Genus: Zimiromus Banks, 1914 | Family: Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892

Zimiromus medius (Keyserling, 1891)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028475

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil

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Syntype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Echemus pallas Mello-Leitão, 1918, (00949); 2 j (destroyed by the fire 2018) -

Taxonomic References

Echemus medius Keyserling, 1891: 33, pl. 1, f. 12 (Df) Original description

Echemus pallas Mello-Leitão, 1918a: 69, f. 38-39 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058425]

Echemus medius Schmidt, 1971: 415, f. 20-21 (mf; misidentified per Platnick & Shadab, 1976e: 2, not identifiable)

Zimiromus medius Platnick & Shadab, 1976e: 12, f. 29-32 (Dm, f, T from Echemus)

Zimiromus medius Platnick, 1993c: 671 (S of Echemus pallas)

References

Keyserling, E. (1891). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Brasilianische Spinnen. Dritter Band. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 278 pp, 10 pls. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.64832 -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1918a). Drassoideas do Brasil. Archivos da Escola Superior de Agricultura e Medicina Veterinaria, Rio de Janeiro 2: 17-74, pl. 1-4. -- Show included taxa

Platnick, N. I. & Shadab, M. U. (1976e). A revision of the Neotropical spider genus Zimiromus, with notes on Echemus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). American Museum Novitates 2609: 1-24. -- Show included taxa

Platnick, N. I. (1993c). Advances in spider taxonomy 1988-1991, with synonymies and transfers 1940-1980. New York Entomological Society New York, 846 pp. -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1971). Mit Bananen eingeschleppte Spinnen. Zoologische Beiträge (N.F.) 17: 387-433. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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