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Genus: Mermessus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 | Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

Mermessus fradeorum (Berland, 1932)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010320

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Described:

Distribution: North America. Introduced to Galapagos, Uruguay, Azores, Cyprus, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, China, New Zealand

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Taxonomic References

Parerigone fradeorum Berland, 1932a: 76, f. 3-11 (Dmf) Original description

Anerigone fradeorum Berland, 1932a: 119 (generic replacement name)

Eperigone banksi Ivie & Barrows, 1935: 8, pl. 3, f. 20-24 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064149]

Aitutakia armata Marples, 1960: 386, f. 2a-c (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064148]

Anerigone fradeorum Denis, 1964a: 80, f. 3-4 (f)

Eperigone fradeorum Jocqué, 1984b: 124, f. 3-5 (m)

Eperigone fradeorum Millidge, 1987: 35, f. 124-131 (mf, S of Eperigone banksi)

Eperigone fradeorum Millidge, 1988a: 67, f. 302-303, 333-339 (mf)

Eperigone fradeorum Beatty, Berry & Millidge, 1991: 272 (S of Eperigone armata)

Eperigone fradeorum Gao, Ren & Zhu, 1994: 52, f. 1-6 (mf)

Eperigone fradeorum Prinsen, 1996b: 2, f. 8 (m)

Eperigone fradeorum Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 167, f. 93D-E, H-I (mf)

Mermessus fradeorum Miller, 2007a: 123 (T from Eperigone)

Mermessus fradeorum Tanasevitch, 2010a: 16, f. 12-19 (mf)

Mermessus fradeorum El-Hennawy et al., 2015: 119, f. 1-11 (mf)

Mermessus fradeorum Baert et al., 2023: 12, f. 44A-C (mf)

Mermessus fradeorum Cajade et al., 2024c: 6, f. 1C-D, 3D-G (mf)

References

Baert, L., Maelfait, J.-P., Desender, K., Hendrickx, F., Dekoninck, W., Berthet, M., Bouckaert, K., Caudron, J. & Leclercq, M. (2023). Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands. Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1-188. [[includes figs of 5 undescribed species]] -- Show included taxa

Beatty, J. A., Berry, J. W. & Millidge, A. F. (1991). The linyphiid spiders of Micronesia and Polynesia, with notes on distributions and habitats. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 8(9): 265-274. -- Show included taxa

Berland, L. (1932a). Voyage de MM. L. Chopard et A. Méquignon aux Açores (août-septembre 1930). II; Araignées. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 101: 69-84. [[includes: Rectification. In: Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 37(8): 119 - doi:10.3406/bsef.1932.14406)]] -- Show included taxa

Cajade, M., Rodrigues, E. N. L., Hagopián, D., Laborda, Á., Brescovit, A. D. & Simó, M. (2024c). On the first South American records of widespread linyphiid spiders (Araneae). Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Ciências Naturais 19(3, e2024-0999): 1-10. doi: 10.46357/bcnaturais.v19i3.999 -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1964a). Spiders from the Azores and Madeira. Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal 18: 68-102. -- Show included taxa

El-Hennawy, H. K., Asiry, K. A., Desouky, M. & Al-Khuraiji, I. A. (2015). The first record of Mermessus fradeorum (Berland, 1932) (Araneae: Linyphiidae) in Saudi Arabia. Serket 14(3): 116-121. -- Show included taxa

Gao, J., Ren, L. Y. & Zhu, M. S. (1994). Notes on a genus newly recorded from China (Linyphiidae). Journal of Hebei Normal University (nat. Sci. Ed.) 1994(Suppl.): 52-53. -- Show included taxa

Ivie, W. & Barrows, W. M. (1935). Some new spiders from Florida. Bulletin of the University of Utah 26(6): 1-24. -- Show included taxa

Jocqué, R. (1984b). Linyphiidae (Araneae) from South Africa. Part I: The collection of the Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria. Journal of the Entomological Society of South Africa 47: 121-146. -- Show included taxa

Marples, B. J. (1960). Spiders from some Pacific islands, part IV. The Cook Islands and Niue. Pacific Science 14: 382-388. -- Show included taxa

Miller, J. A. (2007a). Review of erigonine spider genera in the Neotropics (Araneae: Linyphiidae, Erigoninae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 149(Suppl. 1): 1-263. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00233.x -- Show included taxa

Millidge, A. F. (1987). The erigonine spiders of North America. Part 8. The genus Eperigone Crosby and Bishop (Araneae, Linyphiidae). American Museum Novitates 2885: 1-75. -- Show included taxa

Millidge, A. F. (1988a). The spiders of New Zealand: Part VI. Family Linyphiidae. Otago Museum Bulletin 6: 35-67. -- Show included taxa

Prinsen, J. D. (1996b). Eperigone eschatologica (Crosby, 1924) (Araneae: Linyphiidae), een nieuwe spin in Nederlandse kassen. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 11: 1-3. -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2010a). Order Araneae, family Linyphiidae. Arthropod fauna of the UAE 3: 15-26. -- 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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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2025-01-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Cajade et al., 2024c
2025-01-05	Species distribution update	Cajade et al., 2024c	Old value
2024-12-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Baert et al., 2023
2024-12-22	Species distribution update	Baert et al., 2023	Old value
2019-11-14	Species distribution update	Bosmans et al., 2019b	Old value
2015-06-10	New taxonomic reference entry	El-Hennawy et al., 2015