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Genus: Polybetes Simon, 1897 | Family: Sparassidae Bertkau, 1872

Polybetes pythagoricus Holmberg, 1875

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil, Guyana, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) f (4646-133) of Isopeda immigrans -
Neotype: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN) “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina m (5358) and f (4412) designated by Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1965b: 329 (m here as no. 5368; N.B. only one of both can be valid) - (Galiano & Maury, 1979)
Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) 1m 1j 4ind. (2443, 2498–99) of Voconia maculata -

Taxonomic References

Ocypete pythagorica Holmberg, 1875: 287, pl. 6, f. 2 (Dmf) Original description

Voconia maculata Keyserling, 1880: 232, pl. 4, f. 127 (Dmf)

Isopeda maculata Simon, 1880a: 250

Polybetes maculatus Simon, 1897a: 29, f. 28 (m)

Polybetes pythagoricus Brèthes, 1909a: 46

Polybetes maculatus Järvi, 1912: 35, f. 28, pl. 1, f. 7-10 (f)

Isopeda immigrans Strand, 1913c: 614 (Df)

Polybetes maculatus Järvi, 1914: 130 (f)

Polybetes pythagoricus Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1965b: 329, f. 11-12, 26-28 (mf)

Polybetes pythagoricus Hirst, 1990: 25 (S)

Polybetes pythagoricus Ramírez, 2014: 226, f. 154F (m)

References

Brèthes, J. (1909a). Notas sobre algunos arácnidos. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires (3) 12: 45-47. -- Show included taxa

Gerschman de P., B. S. & Schiapelli, R. D. (1965b). El género Polybetes Simon, 1897, en la Argentina (Araneae-Sparassidae). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Ent.) 1: 313-339, pl. 1-9. -- Show included taxa

Hirst, D. B. (1990). A review of the genus Isopeda L. Koch (Heteropodidae: Araneae) in Australasia with descriptions of two new genera. Records of the South Australian Museum 24(1): 11-26. -- Show included taxa

Holmberg, E. L. (1875). Descriptions et notices d'arachnides de la République Argentine. Periódico Zoológico 1: 283-302. -- Show included taxa

Järvi, T. H. (1912). Das Vaginalsystem der Sparassiden. I. Allgemeiner Teil. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae (A) 4: 1-131, pl. 1-11. -- Show included taxa

Järvi, T. H. (1914). Das Vaginalsystem der Sparassiden. II. Spezieller Teil. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae (A) 4: 118-235. -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1880). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Laterigradae. [Erster Band]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 283 pp., pl. 1-8. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.64832 -- Show included taxa

Ramírez, M. J. (2014). The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 390: 1-374. doi: 10.1206/821.1 (External link) -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1880a). Révision de la famille des Sparassidae (Arachnides). Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 34(2/3/4): 223-351. [[issue 3 and 4 were published in 1881, but a complete seperate extract was available in 1880, see the last page of the pdf]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1897a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-192. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1913c). Über einige australische Spinnen des Senckenbergischen Museums. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 35(5): 599-624. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2014-07-25	New taxonomic reference entry	Ramírez, 2014