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Genus: Goloboffia Griswold & Ledford, 2001 | Family: Migidae Simon, 1889

Goloboffia vellardi (Zapfe, 1961)

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Described:

Distribution: Chile

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Holotype: Museo de Historia Natural, Santiago (MHNS), Chile m (3637) - (Ferretti, Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2019)

Taxonomic References

Migas vellardi Zapfe, 1961c: 153, f. 4-5 (Dm) Original description

Migas vellardi Zapfe, 1963: 126, f. 1 (m)

Migas vellardi Legendre & Calderón, 1984: 1040, pl. X, f. 1-10 (m)

Migas vellardi Goloboff & Platnick, 1987: 2, f. 1-9, 11, 20 (Df)

Goloboffia vellardi Griswold & Ledford, 2001: 17, f. 14A-F, 63E-F (mf, T from Migas)

Goloboffia vellardi Montenegro, González & Aguilera, 2025: 34, f. 1A, C, 2A-B (m)

References

Goloboff, P. A. & Platnick, N. I. (1987). A review of the Chilean spiders of the superfamily Migoidea (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). American Museum Novitates 2888: 1-15. -- Show included taxa

Griswold, C. E. & Ledford, J. (2001). A monograph of the migid trap door spiders of Madagascar and review of the world genera (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Migidae). Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 151: 1-120. -- Show included taxa

Legendre, R. & Calderón G., R. (1984). Liste systématique des araignées mygalomorphes du Chili. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (4) 6(A): 1021-1065. -- Show included taxa

Montenegro Vargas, R., González G., R. & Aguilera, M. A. (2025). Goloboffia Griswold & Ledford, 2001 (Araneae: Migidae), un género de arañas trampilla endémico de la Región de Coquimbo, Chile: descripción de nuevas especies y nuevos registros. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 46: 33-45. [[publ. end of July]] -- Show included taxa

Zapfe, H. (1961c). La familia Migidae en Chile. Investigaciones Zoológicas Chilenas 7: 151-157. -- Show included taxa

Zapfe, H. (1963). Levina epipiptusa (n. g. n. sp.). Investigaciones Zoológicas Chilenas 9: 125-131. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-07-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Montenegro, González & Aguilera, 2025