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Genus: Mysmenopsis Simon, 1898 | Family: Mysmenidae Petrunkevitch, 1928

Mysmenopsis penai Platnick & Shadab, 1978

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009265

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Described:

Distribution: Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil

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Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m - (Dupérré & Tapia, 2020a)

Taxonomic References

Mysmenopsis penai Platnick & Shadab, 1978a: 16, f. 46-48 (Dm) Original description

Mysmenopsis penai Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015: 781, f. 60A-H, 61A-D, 62A-H, 131A, 140L (m)

Mysmenopsis penai Dupérré & Tapia, 2020a: 64, f. 190-199 (m, Df)

Mysmenopsis penai Pantoja, Bonaldo & Xavier, 2023: 73, f. 10C-D (m)

References

Dupérré, N. & Tapia, E. (2020a). Megadiverse Ecuador: a review of Mysmenopsis (Araneae, Mysmenidae) of Ecuador, with the description of twenty-one new kleptoparasitic spider species. Zootaxa 4761(1): 1-81. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4761.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Lopardo, L. & Hormiga, G. (2015). Out of the twilight zone: phylogeny and evolutionary morphology of the orb-weaving spider family Mysmenidae, with a focus on spinneret spigot morphology in symphytognathoids (Araneae, Araneoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 173(3): 527-786. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12199 -- Show included taxa

Pantoja, P., Bonaldo, A. B. & Xavier, C. (2023). On the symphytognathoid spider genus Mysmenopsis Simon, 1898 (Araneae: Mysmenidae) from the Brazilian Amazonian region: description of five new species and new records. Zootaxa 5319(1): 57-75. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5319.1.4 -- Show included taxa

Platnick, N. I. & Shadab, M. U. (1978a). A review of the spider genus Mysmenopsis (Araneae, Mysmenidae). American Museum Novitates 2661: 1-22. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2023-07-24	New taxonomic reference entry	Pantoja, Bonaldo & Xavier, 2023
2023-07-24	Species distribution update	Pantoja, Bonaldo & Xavier, 2023	Old value
2020-04-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Dupérré & Tapia, 2020a
2020-04-07	First description of female	Dupérré & Tapia, 2020a	Old value
2015-07-08	Species distribution update	Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015	Old value
2015-07-08	New taxonomic reference entry	Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015