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

Polybetes fasciatus (Keyserling, 1880)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029183

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Described:

Distribution: Peru, Brazil

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Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Museum and Institute of Zoology (MIZ), Polish Academy of Science (PAN), Warsaw, Poland 1m 1jm 1j of Sparassus funestus (not f) - (Jäger, 2020c)
Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 1m (1890.7.1.3143) of Sparassus funestus - (Jäger, 2020c)
Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f (1567) - (Jäger, 2020c)

Taxonomic References

Sparassus fasciatus Keyserling, 1880: 259, pl. 7, f. 142 (Df) Original description

Sparassus funestus Keyserling, 1880: 249, pl. 7, f. 135a (Dm; f f. 135 see Polybetes rapidus) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065200]

Olios fasciatus Simon, 1880a: 300

Sparassus fasciatus Keyserling, 1891: 254 (Sm of Sparassus funestus)

Olios fasciatus Mello-Leitão, 1918a: 47, f. 21-22 (f)

Olios fasciatus Mello-Leitão, 1943a: 198, f. 27 (m)

Polybetes fasciatus Jäger, 2020c: 106, f. 429-455 (mf, T from Olios, P. funestus presumably not conspecific with P. fasciatus)

References

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

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

Keyserling, E. (1891). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Brasilianische Spinnen. Dritter Band. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 278 pp, 10 pls. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.64832 -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1918a). Drassoideas do Brasil. Archivos da Escola Superior de Agricultura e Medicina Veterinaria, Rio de Janeiro 2: 17-74, pl. 1-4. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1943a). Catálogo das aranhas do Rio Grande do Sul. Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 37: 147-245, 24 pls. -- 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

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2020-10-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Jäger, 2020c
2020-10-23	Species transferred to new genus	Jäger, 2020c		Species transferred from Olios to Polybetes