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Genus: Aname L. Koch, 1873 | Family: Anamidae Simon, 1889

Aname mellosa F. S. B. Harvey, Framenau, Wojcieszek, Rix & M. S. Harvey, 2012

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:045240

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Described:

Distribution: Australia (Western Australia)

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Holotype: Western Australian Museum (WAM), Perth, Australia m (T94870) - (Harvey et al., 2012)
Paratype: Western Australian Museum (WAM), Perth, Australia 53m 2f - (Harvey et al., 2012)

Taxonomic References

Aname mellosa Harvey et al., 2012: 22, f. 1, 10-24 (Dmf) Original description

Aname mellosa Wilson et al., 2025b: 60, f. 5e, 31a-q, 32a-l, 33a-c, 54a (mf)

References

Harvey, F. S. B., Framenau, V. W., Wojcieszek, J. M., Rix, M. G. & Harvey, M. S. (2012). Molecular and morphological characterisation of new species in the trapdoor spider genus Aname (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae) from the Pilbara bioregion of Western Australia. Zootaxa 3383: 15-38. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3383.1.3 -- Show included taxa

Wilson, J. D., Rix, M. G., Hillyer, M. J., Huey, J. A., Piccinini, A., Redfern, G. C., Simmons, L. W., Volschenk, E. S. & Harvey, M. S. (2025b). Integrative taxonomy of the hooded wishbone spiders of the Aname mellosa-complex from Western Australia (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Anamidae). Invertebrate Systematics 39(10, IS25012): 1-108. doi: 10.1071/IS25012 [[incl. Corrigendum doi:10.1071/IS25012_CO]] -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-10-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Wilson et al., 2025b