World Spider Catalog

Genus: Messapus Simon, 1898 | Family: Corinnidae Karsch, 1880

Messapus megae Haddad & Mbo, 2015

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048325

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Described:

Distribution: Zimbabwe

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa f (2014/1857) - (Haddad & Mbo, 2015)
Paratype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa 1m (2014/1858) - (Haddad & Mbo, 2015)

Taxonomic References

Messapus megae Haddad & Mbo, 2015: 390, f. 4-5, 32, 37-38, 41-44 (Dmf) Original description

References

Haddad, C. R. & Mbo, Z. (2015). Five new species of the Afrotropical dark sac spider genus Messapus Simon, 1898 (Araneae: Corinnidae). Zootaxa 4057(3): 385-398. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.3.5 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2016-04-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Haddad & Mbo, 2015
2016-04-21	New species inserted	Haddad & Mbo, 2015