World Spider Catalog

Genus: Melicymnis Simon, 1885 | Family: Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892

Melicymnis bicolor Simon, 1885

SPECIES | NOMEN DUBIUM | TYPE SPECIES

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Described: j

Distribution: India

Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 2j (AR 1643, 9664) - (Sankaran & Caleb, 2025)

Taxonomic References

Melicymnis bicolor Simon, 1885h: 23, pl. 10, f. 22 (Dj; unidentifiable) Original description

Mulicymnis bicolor Simon, 1893a: 370 (unjustified emendation)

Melicymnis bicolor Murphy, 2007: 589, f. 594 (nomen dubium, citing Platnick 2006, World Spider Catalog. Version 6.5 or 7.0 - apparently never published to be a nomen dubium)

Melicymnis bicolor Sankaran & Caleb, 2025: 134, f. 4-5 (j, species inquirenda; maintained a nomen dubium)

References

Murphy, J. (2007). Gnaphosid genera of the world. British Arachnological Society St Neots, Cambridgeshire 1, i-xii, 1-92; 2, i-ii, 93-605. -- Show included taxa

Sankaran, P. M. & Caleb, J. T. D. (2025). On the taxonomic validity of Indian ground spiders: VI. Genera Ladissa Simon, 1907, Melicymnis Simon, 1885, and Poecilochroa Westring, 1874 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 5673(1): 132-142. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5673.1.9 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1885h). Matériaux pour servir à la faune arachnologiques de l'Asie méridionale. I. Arachnides recueillis à Wagra-Karoor près Gundacul, district de Bellary par M. M. Chaper. II. Arachnides recueillis à Ramnad, district de Madura par M. l'abbé Fabre. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 10(1): 1-39. [[pl. 10 see Simon, 1885e]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1893a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 257-488. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-08-04	New taxonomic reference entry	Sankaran & Caleb, 2025
2021-04-24	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon	Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2021b		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Zelotes scrutatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)