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Genus: Tasata Simon, 1903 | Family: Anyphaenidae Bertkau, 1878

Tasata variolosa Mello-Leitão, 1943

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:024022

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina

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Syntype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Tasata variolosa Mello-Leitão, 1943, (42236); 5 f (destroyed by the fire 2018) -

Taxonomic References

Tasata variolosa Mello-Leitão, 1943a: 239, f. 66 (Df) Original description

Tasata variolosa Ramírez, 2003: 233, f. 125A, 128A-G (f, Dm)

Tasata variolosa Poy et al., 2025: 8, f. 7a-f, 8a-c (mf)

References

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1943a). Catálogo das aranhas do Rio Grande do Sul. Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 37: 147-245, 24 pls. -- 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

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-04-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Poy et al., 2025