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Genus: Goeldia Keyserling, 1891 | Family: Titanoecidae Lehtinen, 1967

Goeldia obscura Keyserling, 1878

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023180

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Described:

Distribution: Colombia

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Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f - (Almeida-Silva & Brescovit, 2024)

Taxonomic References

Titanoeca obscura Keyserling, 1878a: 591, pl. 14, f. 15 (Df; erroneously thought to be preoccupied by Lehtinen, 1967: 236 by Hahn, 1833, see Titanoeca quadriguttata) Original description

Amaurobius obscurus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 105

Goeldia funesta Lehtinen, 1967: 236 (T from Auximus, S of Titanoeca = Amaurobius obscura Keyserling, 1878 [erronously chose the younger name], Goeldia funesta revalidated by Almeida-Silva & Brescovit, 2024: 165; S of Tmecula = Goeldia mexicana, revalidated by Leech, 1972: 104, fig. 438 see G. mexicana)

Goeldia obscura Almeida-Silva & Brescovit, 2024: 180, f. 18A-F (Dm, f)

References

Almeida-Silva, L. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2024). Unraveling the mysteries of Goeldia Keyserling, 1891: revision, description of seven new species and first record from USA (Araneae: Titanoecidae). Zootaxa 5428(2): 151-193. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5428.2.1 -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1878a). Spinnen aus Uruguay und einigen anderen Gegenden Amerikas. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 27: 571-624, pl. 14. -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468. [[second pdf: index and outline by V. D. Roth (unpubl.)]] -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-03-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Almeida-Silva & Brescovit, 2024
2024-03-21	First description of male	Almeida-Silva & Brescovit, 2024	Old value
2024-03-21	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Goeldia funesta (Keyserling, 1883)
2024-03-21	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Goeldia funesta (Keyserling, 1883)
2024-03-21	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Goeldia leechi Almeida-Silva & Brescovit, 2024