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Genus: Selenops Latreille, 1819 | Family: Selenopidae Simon, 1897

Selenops banksi Muma, 1953

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028641

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Described:

Distribution: Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, Brazil

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m (20436) - (Crews, Galvis & Esposito, 2021)
Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) m (01875, destroyed by the fire 2018) of Selenops kikay -

Taxonomic References

Selenops banksi Muma, 1953: 38, f. 61-63 (Dm) Original description

Selenops kikay Corronca, 1996a: 68, f. 6-9 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028663]

Selenops kikay Corronca, 1998d: 136, f. 27-30 (mf)

Selenops banksi Crews, 2011: 25, f. 15-16 (m)

Selenops banksi Crews, Galvis & Esposito, 2021: 2348, f. 1a-d, 2a-i, 3a-d, 4a-o, 5a-c, 6a-b, e, h-i, l (mf, S of Selenops kikay)

References

Corronca, J. A. (1996a). Three new species of Selenops Latreille (Araneae, Selenopidae) from northern Brazil. Journal of Arachnology 24: 68-71. -- Show included taxa

Corronca, J. A. (1998d). The South American spiders of the genus Selenops (Araneae, Selenopidae) with a description of three new species. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 33(2): 124-148. doi: 10.1076/snfe.33.2.124.2153 -- Show included taxa

Crews, S. C. (2011). A revision of the spider genus Selenops Latreille, 1819 (Arachnida, Araneae, Selenopidae) in North America, Central America and the Caribbean. ZooKeys 105: 1-182. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.105.724 -- Show included taxa

Crews, S. C., Galvis, W. & Esposito, L. A. (2021). Gliding canopy flatties and relatives from the Selenops banksi group (Araneae: Selenopidae). Journal of Natural History 54(35-36, 2020): 2343-2365. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2020.1844914 -- Show included taxa

Muma, M. H. (1953). A study of the spider family Selenopidae in North and Central America and the West Indies. American Museum Novitates 1619: 1-55. -- 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
2021-03-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Crews, Galvis & Esposito, 2021
2021-03-13	Species distribution update	Crews, Galvis & Esposito, 2021	Old value
2021-03-13	Species synonymy	Crews, Galvis & Esposito, 2021		Selenops kikay synonymized with Selenops banksi