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Genus: Meri Rheims & Jäger, 2022 | Family: Sparassidae Bertkau, 1872

Meri trinitatis Strand, 1916

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029350

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Described:

Distribution: Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil 1f (105, destroyed by the fire 2018) of Olios orchiticus - (Rheims & Jäger, 2022)
Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany f (4696) - (Jäger, 2020c)

Taxonomic References

Olios trinitatis Strand, 1916b: 126 (Df) Original description

Olios orchiticus Mello-Leitão, 1930b: 67, f. 30-31 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029276]

Olios quinquelineatus Caporiacco, 1948a: 686, f. 103-104 (mf; misidentified per Rheims & Jäger, 2022: 63)

Olios trinitatis Jäger, 2020c: 98, f. 384-398 (f, misplaced in Olios)

Olios orchiticus Jäger, 2020c: 81 (misplaced in Olios)

Meri trinitatis Rheims & Jäger, 2022: 54, f. 265-279 (mf, T from Olios, S of Olios orchiticus)

References

Caporiacco, L. di (1948a). Arachnida of British Guiana collected in 1931 and 1936 by Professors Beccari and Romiti. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 118(3): 607-747. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1948.tb00402.x -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P. (2020c). The spider genus Olios Walckenaer, 1837 (Araneae: Sparassidae) – Part 1: species groups, diagnoses, identification keys, distribution maps and revision of the argelasius-, coenobitus- and auricomis-groups. Zootaxa 4866(1): 1-119. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4866.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1930b). Aranhas do Cuminá. Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 32: 51-75. -- Show included taxa

Rheims, C. A. & Jäger, P. (2022). Revalidation of the genus Sadala Simon, 1880 with the description of a new genus of Neotropical huntsman spiders (Araneae, Sparassidae). Zootaxa 5135(1): 1-80. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5135.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1916b). Systematische-faunistische Studien über paläarktische, afrikanische und amerikanische Spinnen des Senckenbergischen Museums. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 81(A9): 1-153. -- 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
2022-05-19	Species distribution update	Rheims & Jäger, 2022	Old value
2022-05-19	Species synonymy	Rheims & Jäger, 2022		Meri orchiticus synonymized with Meri trinitatis
2022-05-19	New taxonomic reference entry	Rheims & Jäger, 2022
2022-05-19	Species transferred to new genus	Rheims & Jäger, 2022		Species transferred from Olios to Meri
2022-05-19	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon		Old value
2020-10-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Jäger, 2020c