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Melychiopharis Simon 1895
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Genus Melychiopharis Simon, 1895
Melychiopharis Simon 1895: 907. Type species by monotypy, M. cynips Simon, 1895.
Diagnosis. This genus can be distinguished from other araneids by the long and granulated carapace in males and females (Figs. 1, 2; Santos et al. 2005: figs. 1–3). The male pedipalp is distinctive in the embolus arising from a large, rounded base and in the filiform, long and proximally directed median apophysis (Figs. 3, 4, 7, 8; Santos et al. 2005: figs. 6–8). Epigynum is relatively simple, with a rounded median plate and copulatory ducts laterally visible by transparency through the tegument (Figs. 5, 6, 9; Santos et al. 2005: fig. 9).
Notes
Published as part of Brescovit, Antonio D., Santos, Adalberto J. & Leite, Clarissa Machado P., 2011, A second species of the orb-weaving spider genus Melychiopharis from South America (Araneae: Araneidae), pp. 61-63 in Zootaxa 2798 on page 61, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.277030
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Simon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Araneidae
- Genus
- Melychiopharis
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Melychiopharis Simon, 1895 sec. Brescovit, Santos & Leite, 2011
References
- Simon, E. (1895) Histoire naturelle des araignees. Paris, 1, 761 - 1084.
- Santos, A. J., Brescovit, A. D. & Levi, H. W. (2005) Melychiopharis: an atypical orb-weaving spider from South America (Araneae: Araneidae). Zootaxa, 1016, 57 - 64.