World Spider Catalog

Genus: Mesabolivar González-Sponga, 1998 | Family: Pholcidae C. L. Koch, 1850

Mesabolivar difficilis Mello-Leitão, 1918

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003477

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil

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Syntype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Physocyclus difficilis Mello-Leitão, 1918, (00857); 1 m 1 f (probably destroyed by the fire 2018) -
Syntype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Physocyclus difficilis Mello-Leitão, 1918, (00840); 4 m 4 f (destroyed by the fire 2018) -

Taxonomic References

Physocyclus difficile Mello-Leitão, 1918c: 112, f. 28-29 (Df) Original description

Mesabolivar difficilis Huber, 2000: 235, f. 924-933 (Tf from Physocyclus, Dm)

Mesabolivar difficilis Huber, 2018: 111, f. 459, 522-524 (f)

References

Huber, B. A. (2000). New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): A revision at generic level. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 254: 1-348. doi: 10.1206/0003-0090(2000)254<0001:NWPSAP>2.0.CO;2 -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. A. (2018). The South American spider genera Mesabolivar and Carapoia (Araneae, Pholcidae): new species and a framework for redrawing generic limits. Zootaxa 4395(1): 1-178. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4395.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1918c). Scytodidas e pholcidas do Brasil. Revista do Museu Paulista 10: 83-144. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2018-03-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Huber, 2018