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Genus: Mimetus Hentz, 1832 | Family: Mimetidae Simon, 1881

Mimetus epeiroides Emerton, 1882

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005748

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Described:

Distribution: Canada, USA. Introduced to Galapagos

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Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m - (Kaston, 1948)

Taxonomic References

Mimetus epeiroides Emerton, 1882: 17, pl. 3, f. 4 (Dm) Original description

Mimetus epeiroides Chamberlin, 1923: 6, f. 3 (m, removed from S of Mimetus interfector = M. syllepsicus, rejecting Keyserling, 1886b: 6)

Mimetus epeiroides Kaston, 1948: 276, f. 883-884, 892, 908 (mf, revalidation confirmed)

Mimetus epeiroides Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 174, f. 1945-1947 (mf)

Mimetus epeiroides Baert et al., 2023: 14, f. 54A-B (m)

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

Chamberlin, R. V. (1923). The North American species of Mimetus. Journal of Entomology and Zoology 15: 3-9. -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1882). New England spiders of the family Theridiidae. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6: 1-86. -- Show included taxa

Kaston, B. J. (1948). Spiders of Connecticut. Bulletin of the Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey 70: 1-874. -- Show included taxa

Paquin, P. & Dupérré, N. (2003). Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Supplement 11: 1-251. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-12-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Baert et al., 2023
2024-12-22	Species distribution update	Baert et al., 2023	Old value