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Miturginae Simon 1886

Authors/Creators

  • 1. School of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Southern Queensland, West Street, Toowoomba, 4350, Queensland, Australia RobertJRaven @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8532 - 245 X & School of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Southern Queensland, West Street, Toowoomba, 4350, Queensland, Australia RobertJRaven @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8532 - 245 X & Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia
  • 2. School of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Southern Queensland, West Street, Toowoomba, 4350, Queensland, Australia RobertJRaven @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8532 - 245 X & Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia & Wendy. Hebron @ qm. qld. gov. au; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4156 - 6302
  • 3. School of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Southern Queensland, West Street, Toowoomba, 4350, Queensland, Australia RobertJRaven @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8532 - 245 X & Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia & School of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Southern Queensland, West Street, Toowoomba, 4350, Queensland, Australia RobertJRaven @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8532 - 245 X & kylie. w 50 @ outlook. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2512 - 642 X Corresponding author & School of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Southern Queensland, West Street, Toowoomba, 4350, Queensland, Australia RobertJRaven @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8532 - 245 X

Description

Miturginae Simon, 1886

Diagnosis. Differ from Zorinae (except Hestimodema) and Diaprograptinae in the absence of true claw tufts, and from Hestimodema in the PLE not forming a third row, the AER being recurved in anterior view, and lacking strong paired spines ventrally on tibiae and metatarsi I and II, especially in the female. Eight eyes in two rows, PER slightly recurved or procurved. Two claws with setae around claws (Figs 2b, 81e) but no true tufts. Male palp with or without retrolateral cymbial groove, RTA with dissimilar dorsal and ventral processes joined by unsclerotised area. Tegulum entire.

Included genera: Miturga Thorell, 1870, Miturgopelma gen. nov., Knotodo gen. nov., Miturgiella gen. nov., Xistera gen. nov., and Xeromiturga gen. nov.

Synonymies and transfers

Zoroides Berland, 1924 (type species Zoroides dalmasi Berland, 1924; holotype in MNHP (examined) is presently in the Miturgidae. Silva-Dávila (2003), reporting on an unpublished cladogram, found the monotypic Zoroides grouped with Liocranum L. Koch, 1866. Ramírez (2014: 342) suggested Zoroides was “probably a phrurolithid”; however, although that was not reported by the World Spider Catalog (2023); Ramírez (2014) did transfer the monotypic Dorymetaecus Rainbow, 1920 to the Phrurolithidae Banks, 1892. Zoroides dalmasi is well represented in the New Caledonian collections of the Queensland Museum. Zoroides is a large congener of Dorymetaecus spinipes Rainbow, 1920, the type species, which is in the Phrurolithidae, (type in SAM and with recently collected material in AMS [males, AM KS, 79163, 76174, 79153; females, KS32724, 75819, 76077], examined). Both Dorymetaecus spinipes and Zoroides dalmasi are strongly similar to the Asian Otacilia Banks,1892, but lack the putative synapomorphy of the Phrurolithidae, the process on the ventral palpal femur of males. Zoroides is thus considered a junior synonym of Dorymetaecus syn. nov. and maintained in the Phrurolithidae.

Miturga whistleri Simon, 1909: 171 (female holotype from south-western Western Australia in MNHP 16195, examined), is herein considered a junior synonym of Mituliodon tarantulinus (L. Koch, 1873) syn. nov., with which it shares the shape of the epigyne.

Miturga splendens Hickman, 1930 (female holotype from Tasmania in QVMAG:13:7326, examined) is also considered a junior synonym of Mituliodon tarantulinus syn. nov., with which it shares the shape of the epigyne.

Notes

Published as part of Raven, Robert J., Hebron, Wendy & Williams, Kylie, 2023, Revisions of Australian ground-hunting spiders VI: five new stripe-less miturgid genera and 48 new species (Miturgidae: Miturginae), pp. 1-117 in Zootaxa 5358 (1) on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5358.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10151882

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Cites
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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5358.1.1 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Collection code
QVMAG
Scientific name authorship
Simon
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Miturgidae
Taxon rank
subFamily
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Miturginae Simon, 1886 sec. Raven, Hebron & Williams, 2023

References

  • Berland, L. (1924) Araignees de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et des Iles Loyalty. In: Sarasin, F. & Roux, J. (Eds.), Nova Caledonia. Forschungen in Neu-Caledonien und auf den Loyalty-Inseln. Recherches scientifiques en Nouvelle-Caledonie et aux Iles Loyalty. A. Zoologie. Vol. III. L. II. C. W. Kreidel, Berlin, pp. 157 - 255.
  • Silva-Davila, D. (2003) Higher-level relationships of the spider family Ctenidae (Araneae: Ctenoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 274, 1 - 86. https: // doi. org / 10.1206 / 0003 - 0090 (2003) 274 % 3 C 0001: HLROTS % 3 E 2.0. CO; 2
  • Ramirez, M. J. (2014) The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 390, 1 - 374. https: // doi. org / 10.1206 / 821.1
  • World Spider Catalog (2023) World Spider Catalog, Version 24. Natural History Museum Bern, Bern. Available from: http: // wsc. nmbe. ch (accessed 23 June 2023) https: // doi. org / 10.24436 / 2
  • Rainbow, W. J. (1920) Arachnida from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. Records of the South Australian Museum, 1 (3), 229 - 272, pl. 28 - 31.
  • Simon, E. (1909) Araneae. 2 e partie. In: Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (Eds.), Die Fauna Sudwest-Australiens, Jena, 2 (13), pp. 152 - 212.
  • Koch, L. (1873) Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 8 - 9]. Bauer & Raspe, Nurnberg, 369 - 472, pls. 28 - 36.
  • Hickman, V. V. (1930) Studies in Tasmanian spiders. Part IV. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1929, 87 - 122.