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Genus: Melloina Brignoli, 1985 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Melloina gracilis Schenkel, 1953

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Described:

Distribution: Venezuela

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Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland m (ARAN-01263a) - (Schenkel, 1953a)

Taxonomic References

Melloa gracilis Schenkel, 1953a: 4, f. 4a-c (Dm) Original description

Melloina gracilis Brignoli, 1985a: 380

Glabropelma gracilis Raven, 1985a: 122, f. 16-17 (m)

Melloina gracilis Raven, 1999: 819, f. 2A-H (m)

Melloina gracilis Goloboff-Szumik & Ríos-Tamayo, 2022: 251, f. 1A-F (Df)

References

Brignoli, P. M. (1985a). On some generic homonymies in spiders (Araneae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 6: 380. -- Show included taxa

Goloboff-Szumik, V. E. & Ríos-Tamayo, D. (2022). Description of the female of Melloina gracilis (Schenkel, 1953) (Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae) with comments on the familial placement of Melloina. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Nueva Serie 24(2): 249-255. doi: 10.22179/REVMACN.24.781 -- Show included taxa

Raven, R. J. (1985a). The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): cladistics and systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 1-180. -- Show included taxa

Raven, R. J. (1999). Review of the mygalomorph genus Melloina Brignoli (Paratropididae: Araneae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43: 819-825. -- Show included taxa

Schenkel, E. (1953a). Bericht über einige Spinnentiere aus Venezuela. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 64: 1-57. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2023-01-18	New taxonomic reference entry	Goloboff-Szumik & Ríos-Tamayo, 2022
2023-01-18	First description of female	Goloboff-Szumik & Ríos-Tamayo, 2022	Old value