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Genus: Anisaspis Simon, 1892 | Family: Paratropididae Simon, 1889

Anisaspis tuberculata Simon, 1892

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002509

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Described: j

Distribution: St. Vincent

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f (AR16101; presumably a lapsus and this specimen has no type status) - (Raven, 1985a)
Lectotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK j (1894.10.17.1-3) - (Sherwood, Lucas & Brescovit, 2022)
Paralectotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 2j (1894.10.17.1-3) - (Sherwood, Lucas & Brescovit, 2022)

Taxonomic References

Anisaspis tuberculata Simon, 1892e: 550 (Df; immature per Sherwood, Lucas & Brescovit, 2022: 93) Original description

Anisaspis bacillifera Simon, 1892a: 78 (lapsus for tuberculata)

Anisaspis tuberculata F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896: 728, pl. 34, f. 3-5

Anisaspis tuberculata Raven, 1985a: 122, f. 165-170

Anisaspis tuberculata Sherwood, Lucas & Brescovit, 2022: 93, f. 1-7 (j)

Anisaspis tuberculata Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025d: 701 (type is immature, unidentifiable, nomen dubium)

References

Peñaherrera-R., P., Ríos-Tamayo, D., León-E., R. J., Drolshagen, B. & Sherwood, D. (2025d). On encrusted soil and mud: a preliminary phylogenetic analysis of the mud spider family Paratropididae Simon, 1889 (Araneae: Mygalomorphae) brings to light new species and genera. Invertebrate Zoology 22(4): 662-717. doi: 10.15298/invertzool.22.4.10 -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1896). On the Theraphosidae of the lower Amazons: being an account of the new genera and species of this group of spiders discovered during the expedition of the steamship "Faraday" up the river Amazons. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 64(3): 716-766, pl. 33-35. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1896.tb03076.x -- 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

Sherwood, D., Lucas, S. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2022). Redescription of the holotype female of Anisaspoides gigantea F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 with discussion and typification of Anisaspis tuberculata Simon, 1892 (Araneae: Paratropididae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 41: 91-95. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1892e). On the spiders of the island of St. Vincent. Part 1. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 59(4, 1891): 549-575, pl. 42. [[published in April 1892, after Duncan, 1937]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1892a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-256. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-01-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025d
2026-01-06	Taxon is nomen dubium	Peñaherrera-R. et al., 2025d		Taxon declared a nomen dubium
2023-01-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood, Lucas & Brescovit, 2022
2016-11-11	Species updated		Old value	Error corrected