Mazax O. Pickard-Cambridge 1898
Authors/Creators
- 1. Colección Boliviana de Fauna, La Paz, Bolivia & robertperger @ hotmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9930 - 9638
- 2. SpiDivErse, Biodiversity Inventory for Conservation (BINCO), Walmersumstraat 44, 3380 Glabbeek, Belgium & brogan. pett @ outlook. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0461 - 3715 & Centre for Ecology and Conservation, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, TR 10 9 FE, U. K. & brogan. pett @ outlook. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0461 - 3715
Description
Genus Mazax O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898
Type species: Mazax pax Reiskind, 1969, replacement name for Mazax spinosa O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 (Reiskind 1969).
Diagnosis (modified from Reiskind (1969) and Rubio & Danişman (2014)). Abdomen with distinct, rugose petiole, second pair of abdominal spines sclerotized to spine-like tubercles and/or spines (except in M. ajax), AER recurved, PER slightly recurved to straight, eyes moderately large and approximately equal, with AME slightly smaller than ALE.
Remarks. A rugose petiole and abdominal spines can be found in the Asian genus Serendib Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001, but Serendib species have a sub-globose abdomen, a strongly recurved posterior eye row with widely separated eyes, and AME larger than ALE (Deeleman-Reinhold 2001). Species of Grismadox resemble Mazax in their habitus, subequal eyes and the sclerotized second abdominal setae, but can be separated from the latter by a short, smooth petiole, the male palp with both dRTA and vRTA, and females with anterior COs (Pett et al. 2022).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- O. Pickard-Cambridge
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Corinnidae
- Genus
- Mazax
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mazax Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 sec. Perger & Pett, 2022
References
- Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1898) Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, London, Zoology, 1, 233 - 288.
- Reiskind, J. (1969) The spider subfamily Castianeirinae of North and Central America (Araneae, Clubionidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 138, 163 - 325.
- Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. (2001) Forest spiders of South East Asia: with a revision of the sac and ground spiders (Araneae: Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Liocranidae, Gnaphosidae, Prodidomidae and Trochanterriidae [sic]). Brill, Leiden, 591 pp.
- Pett, B. L., Rubio, G. D. & Perger, R. (2022) Grismadox gen. nov., a new Neotropical genus of ant-resembling spiders (Araneae, Corinnidae, Castianeirinae), including the description of two new species from Bolivia and Paraguay. Zoosystematics & Evolution, 98 (1), 1 - 11. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zse. 98.76677