World Spider Catalog

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

Messapus mygaloides Haddad & Grismado, 2025

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065248

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Described:

Distribution: Tanzania, Mozambique

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: California Academy of Sciences (CAS), San Francisco, USA f (21619) - (Haddad & Grismado, 2025)
Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium 1m (247734) - (Haddad & Grismado, 2025)
Paratype: National Museum, Bloemfontein (NMBA), South Africa 1m (19155) - (Haddad & Grismado, 2025)

Taxonomic References

Messapus mygaloides Haddad & Grismado, 2025: 353, f. 2-26 (Dmf) Original description

References

Haddad, C. R. & Grismado, C. J. (2025). Further additions to the rare dark sac spider genus Messapus Simon, 1897 (Araneae: Corinnidae). Zootaxa 5637(2): 351-362. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5637.2.8 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-05-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Haddad & Grismado, 2025
2025-05-21	New species inserted	Haddad & Grismado, 2025

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