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Genus: Arachosia O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 | Family: Anyphaenidae Bertkau, 1878

Arachosia bergi (Simon, 1880)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023961

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina

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It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -

Taxonomic References

Phidyle bergi Simon, 1880a: 345 (Dm) Original description

Oxysoma bergi Simon, 1897a: 100

Oxysoma bergi Berland, 1913b: 103, pl. 10, f. 80-82 (m)

Arachosia bergi Ramírez, 2003: 139, f. 68D-F, 75A-D (m, Df, T from Oxysoma; f. 67B, 70 see Arachosia kapiipeoi)

Arachosia bergi Rubio & Ramírez, 2015: 39, f. 25A-F, 26A-F, 27A-E, 28A-G, 70A-E (mf)

Arachosia bergi Poy et al., 2025: 9, f. 9a-g (mf)

References

Berland, L. (1913b). Araignées. In: Mission du Service géographique de l'armée pour la mesure d'un arc du méridien équatorial en Amérique du Sud (1899-1906). Tome 10, fascicule 1. Gauthier-Villars, Paris, pp. 79-119, pl. 7-12. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.980 -- Show included taxa

Poy, D., Piacentini, L. N., Michalik, P., Lin, S. W., Martínez, L. A. & Ramírez, M. J. (2025). Copulatory mechanics in ghost spiders (Amaurobioidinae, Anyphaenidae) reveals an independent regressive evolution of a key genital trait through functional replacement. Arthropod Structure & Development 86(101442): 1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.asd.2025.101442 -- Show included taxa

Ramírez, M. J. (2003). The spider subfamily Amaurobioidinae (Araneae, Anyphaenidae): a phylogenetic revision at the generic level. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 277: 1-262. doi: 10.1206/0003-0090(2003)277<0001:TSSAAA>2.0.CO;2 -- Show included taxa

Rubio, G. D. & Ramírez, M. J. (2015). Taxonomic revision of the American spider genus Arachosia (Araneae: Anyphaenidae). Zootaxa 3932(1): 1-105. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3932.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1880a). Révision de la famille des Sparassidae (Arachnides). Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 34(2/3/4): 223-351. [[issue 3 and 4 were published in 1881, but a complete seperate extract was available in 1880, see the last page of the pdf]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1897a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-192. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-04-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Poy et al., 2025
2015-04-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Rubio & Ramírez, 2015