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Genus: Strotarchus Simon, 1888 | Family: Cheiracanthiidae Wagner, 1887

Strotarchus tropicus (Mello-Leitão, 1917)

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil

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Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Coreidon tropicum Mello-Leitão, 1917, (00964); 1 m (destroyed by the fire 2018) -

Taxonomic References

Coreidon tropicum Mello-Leitão, 1917b: 15 (Dm) Original description

Coreidum tropicum Bonnet, 1956: 1203 (invalid emendation)

Strotarchus tropicum Ramírez, Grismado & Blick, 2004: 181 (T from Coreidon, lapsus)

Strotarchus tropicus Bonaldo et al., 2012: 20, f. 1-2, 24, 28-29, 48-49, 67, 85-88 (m, Df)

References

Bonaldo, A. B., Saturnino, R., Ramírez, M. J. & Brescovit, A. D. (2012). A revision of the American spider genus Strotarchus Simon, 1888 (Araneae: Dionycha, Systariinae). Zootaxa 3363: 1-37. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3363.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Bonnet, P. (1956). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) (2me partie: C-F). Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 919-1926. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1917b). Generos e especies novas de araneidos. Archivos da Escola Superior de Agricultura e Medicina Veterinaria, Rio de Janeiro 1: 3-19. -- Show included taxa

Ramírez, M. J., Grismado, C. & Blick, T. (2004). Notes on the spider family Agelenidae in southern South America (Arachnida: Araneae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 9: 179-182. -- Show included taxa

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