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Genus: Monoblemma Gertsch, 1941 | Family: Tetrablemmidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873

Monoblemma cambridgei (Bryant, 1940)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:004143

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Described:

Distribution: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Virgin Is., Colombia

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m - (Martínez, 2025)
Allotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA f - (Martínez, 2025)
Holotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA m of Monoblemma muchmorei - (Martínez, 2025)
Paratype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA 1f of Monoblemma muchmorei - (García, Martínez & Ahumada-C., 2019)

Taxonomic References

Tetrablemma cambridgei Bryant, 1940: 269, f. 8-10, 13 (Dmf) Original description

Matta cambridgei Shear, 1978: 16, f. 24-32 (mf, T from Tetrablemma; misidentified per Martínez, 2025: 289)

Monoblemma muchmorei Shear, 1978: 23, f. 51-56 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:004166]

Caraimatta cambridgei Lehtinen, 1981: 71 (T from Matta)

Monoblemma muchmorei Lehtinen, 1981: 72, f. 316-319

Monoblemma muchmorei Burger, 2008b: 1083, f. 1b, 3a-c, 11b, g, 12e, 13d (mf)

Monoblemma muchmorei García, Martínez & Ahumada-C., 2019: 173, f. 5A-B (f)

Monoblemma cambridgei Martínez, 2025: 289, f. 2A-F, 3A-F, 4A-F, 5A-F, 6A-F, 7A-F, 8A-F, 9A-H, 10A-F, 14E-H, 16A, C, 20A, E (mf, T from Caraimatta, S of Monoblemma muchmorei)

References

Bryant, E. B. (1940). Cuban spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 86: 247-532. -- Show included taxa

Burger, M. (2008b). Functional genital morphology of armored spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Tetrablemmidae). Journal of Morphology 269: 1073-1094. -- Show included taxa

García, A. F., Martínez, L. & Ahumada-C., D. (2019). A new species of the armored spider genus Caraimatta Lehtinen, 1981 from Colombia (Araneae: Synspermiata: Tetrablemmidae). Zootaxa 4619(1): 168-176. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4619.1.8 -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. (1981). Spiders of the Oriental-Australian region. III. Tetrablemmidae, with a world revision. Acta Zoologica Fennica 162: 1-151. -- Show included taxa

Martínez, L. (2025). A revision of the genus Monoblemma Gertsch, 1941 (Araneae: Tetrablemmidae) in Central America and the Caribbean. Zootaxa 5636(2): 287-315. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5636.2.4 -- Show included taxa

Shear, W. A. (1978). Taxonomic notes on the armored spiders of the families Tetrablemmidae and Pacullidae. American Museum Novitates 2650: 1-46. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-05-16	Species synonymy	Martínez, 2025		Monoblemma muchmorei synonymized with Monoblemma cambridgei
2025-05-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Martínez, 2025
2025-05-16	Species transferred to new genus	Martínez, 2025		Species transferred from Caraimatta to Monoblemma
2025-05-16	Species distribution update	Martínez, 2025	Old value
2016-01-14	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon	Lehtinen, 1981		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Caraimatta blandini Lehtinen, 1981