World Spider Catalog

Genus: Metagonia Simon, 1893 | Family: Pholcidae C. L. Koch, 1850

Metagonia wayuu Huber, 2025

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066496

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Described:

Distribution: Colombia, Venezuela

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museo de Entomología de la Universidad del Valle (MUSENUV), Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia m (Ar 3531) - (Huber & Meng, 2025b)
Paratype: Museo de Entomología de la Universidad del Valle (MUSENUV), Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia 1m 2f (Ar 3532) - (Huber & Meng, 2025b)
Paratype: Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn, Germany 2m 2f (Ar 24780) - (Huber & Meng, 2025b)

Taxonomic References

Metagonia wayuu Huber in Huber & Meng, 2025b: 206, f. 1C-D, 2C-D, 8A-F, 9A-F, 10A-C, 11A-E, 12A-D, 22B (Dmf) Original description

References

Huber, B. A. & Meng, G. L. (2025b). New species of Metagonia Simon with directionally asymmetric male and female genitalia (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 1026: 199-235. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2025.1026.3117 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-11-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Huber & Meng, 2025b
2025-11-23	New species inserted	Huber & Meng, 2025b

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