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Genus: Syspira Simon, 1895 | Family: Miturgidae Simon, 1886

Syspira tigrina Simon, 1895

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023603

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Described:

Distribution: USA, Mexico

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Holotype: f (presumed lost) - (Valdez-Mondragón, Jiménez & Palacios-Cardiel, 2025)
Holotype: California Academy of Sciences (CAS), San Francisco, USA f (1447) of Syspira analytica - (Chamberlin, 1924b)
Paratype: California Academy of Sciences (CAS), San Francisco, USA ff of Syspira analytica - (Chamberlin, 1924b)
Paratype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA ff of Syspira analytica - (Chamberlin, 1924b)
Holotype: California Academy of Sciences (CAS), San Francisco, USA f (1449) of Syspira synthetica - (Chamberlin, 1924b)
Allotype: California Academy of Sciences (CAS), San Francisco, USA m (1450) of Syspira synthetica - (Chamberlin, 1924b)
Paratype: California Academy of Sciences (CAS), San Francisco, USA mm ff of Syspira synthetica - (Chamberlin, 1924b)
Paratype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA mm ff of Syspira synthetica - (Chamberlin, 1924b)

Taxonomic References

Syspira tigrina Simon, 1895e: 135 (Df) Original description

Syspira tigrina Simon, 1897a: 131, f. 124

Syspira analytica Chamberlin, 1924b: 663, f. 107 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023597]

Syspira synthetica Chamberlin, 1924b: 665, f. 109-110 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023602]

Syspira tigrina Valdez-Mondragón, Jiménez & Palacios-Cardiel, 2025: 311, f. 31-64, 67-68 (mf, S of Syspira analytica and S. synthetica)

References

Chamberlin, R. V. (1924b). The spider fauna of the shores and islands of the Gulf of California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 12: 561-694. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1895e). Descriptions de quelques arachnides de Basse-Californie faisant partie des collections du Dr Geo. Marx. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 20(5): 134-137. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1897a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-192. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Valdez-Mondragón, A., Jiménez, M. L. & Palacios-Cardiel, C. (2025). On the sympatric spiders from the Baja California Peninsula: descriptions of the males of Syspira longipes Simon and S. tigrina Simon (Araneae: Miturgidae), with new synonyms. Zootaxa 5722(3): 301-325. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5722.3.1 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2025-11-20	Species synonymy	Valdez-Mondragón, Jiménez & Palacios-Cardiel, 2025	Syspira synthetica synonymized with Syspira tigrina
2025-11-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Valdez-Mondragón, Jiménez & Palacios-Cardiel, 2025
2025-11-20	Species synonymy	Valdez-Mondragón, Jiménez & Palacios-Cardiel, 2025	Syspira analytica synonymized with Syspira tigrina