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Genus: Phryganoporus Simon, 1908 | Family: Desidae Pocock, 1895

Phryganoporus nigrinus Simon, 1908

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038735

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Described:

Distribution: Australia (Western Australia to Queensland)

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) Phryganoporus nigrinus Simon, 1908, (35046) -
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

Phryganoporus nigrinus Simon, 1908d: 368 (Df) Original description

Badumna candida Gray, 1983a: 250, f. 9, 37 (misidentified per Gray, 2002: 286)

Phryganoporus nigrinus Gray, 2002: 286, f. 1b-f, h-j, 2g-j, 3c, 7a-h, 8a-i (Dm, f, T from Badumna, removed from S of Badumna candida, rejecting Main, 1971: 119 [sub Ixeuticus])

References

Gray, M. R. (1983a). The taxonomy of the semi-communal spiders commonly referred to the species Ixeuticus candidus (L. Koch) with notes on the genera Phryganoporus, Ixeuticus and Badumna (Araneae, Amaurobioidea). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 106: 247-261. -- Show included taxa

Gray, M. R. (2002). The taxonomy and distribution of the spider genus Phryganoporus Simon (Araneae: Amaurobioidea: Desidae). Records of the Australian Museum 54: 275-292. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1908d). Araneae. 1re partie. In: Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds.) Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger südwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905. Band 2, Lieferung 12. Gustav Fischer, Jena, pp. 359-446. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.7416 [[2nd pdf lists the collection locations]] -- Show included taxa

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