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

Selenops candidus Muma, 1953

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028646

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Described:

Distribution: Jamaica

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Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA f of Selenops lunatus - (Sherwood & Alayón, 2023)

Taxonomic References

Selenops aissus Petrunkevitch, 1925a: 134, f. 53-54 (f, misidentified)

Selenops candidus Muma, 1953: 29, f. 51-52 (Dm) Original description

Selenops lunatus Muma, 1953: 32, f. 50 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028670]

Selenops lunatus Alayón, 2003d: 118, f. 1-2 (f)

Selenops candidus Alayón, 2003d: 118, f. 3-6 (m, Df)

Selenops candidus Crews, 2011: 86, f. 97-100 (mf, S of Selenops lunatus)

Selenops aff. arikok Sherwood & Alayón, 2022: 166, f. 1, 3-5 (f; misidentified per Sherwood & Alayón, 2023: 16)

Selenops candidus Sherwood & Alayón, 2023: 16, f. 3-7 (f)

References

Alayón García, G. (2003d). La familia Selenopidae (Arachnida: Araneae) en Jamaica. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 8: 117-122. -- 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

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

Petrunkevitch, A. (1925a). Arachnida from Panama. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 27: 51-248. -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D. & Alayón García, G. (2022). On a previously unreported historical stowaway selenopid originally found on Guernsey, Channel Islands (Araneae: Selenopidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 41: 166-167. -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D. & Alayón García, G. (2023). Additional records of Selenops Latreille, 1819 as stowaways in the United Kingdom and reconsideration of a prior identification (Araneae: Selenopidae). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 157: 16-17. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Gloor, D., Hänggi, A., Kropf, C.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 05.2018. doi: 10.24436/1

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
2023-07-02	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon		Old value
2023-07-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood & Alayón, 2023