Taxon details

Family: Corinnidae / Genus: Megalostrata

Megalostrata raptor (L. Koch, 1866)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-05-30
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025210]
  • Distribution: Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Curaçao
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; m (1916.6.1.801) (Bonaldo, 2000)
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany; m (2142) of Megalostrata venifica (Bonaldo, 2000)
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; m (1091.3.3.156) of Delozeugma formidabile (Bonaldo, 2000)
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; m (1901.3.3.157) of Delozeugma mordicans (Bonaldo, 2000)
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; f (probably lost) of Chemmis frederici (Bonaldo, 2000)
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany; f (8672) of Megalostrata sperata (Bonaldo, 2000)
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; f (1901.2.3.292) of Chemmis punctigera (Bonaldo, Galán-Sánchez & García, 2024)
Taxonomic references
Hypsinotus raptor L. Koch, 1866: 274, pl. 11, f. 174-175 (Dmf).
Megalostrata venifica Karsch, 1880c: 378, pl. 12, f. 5 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025311].
Delozeugma formidabile O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893b: 106, pl. 14, f. 5 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025306].
Delozeugma mordicans O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897c: 225, pl. 28, f. 1 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025308].
Megalostrata mordicans Simon, 1898a: 197.
Megalostrata venenifica Simon, 1898a: 209 (lapsus).
Chemmis frederici Simon, 1898a: 215 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:024192].
Menalippe punctigera O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898a: 285, pl. 32, f. 7 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060863].
Megalostrata formidabilis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899a: 63.
Chemmis frederici F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900: 92, pl. 7, f. 2, pl. 8, f. 1 (f, S of Menalippe punctigera).
Corinna raptor Petrunkevitch, 1911: 469.
Chemmis punctigera Banks, 1914a: 677, pl. 28, f. 8 (f).
Megalostrata sperata Kraus, 1955b: 48, f. 125 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025310].
Corinna raptrix Bonnet, 1956: 1215 (invalid emendation).
Megalostrata mordicans Wunderlich, 1988: 202, f. 540 (m).
Megalostrata raptrix Bonaldo, 2000: 118, f. 110-111, 302-309 (mf, S of Chemmis frederici, Megalostrata formidabilis, M. mordicans, M. sperata and M. venifica).
Megalostrata raptor Bonaldo, Galán-Sánchez & García, 2024: 497, f. 1A, 2A-C, 3A-B (m).
References

Banks, N. (1914a). Notes on some Costa Rican spiders. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 65(3, 1913): 676-687, pl 28-30. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bonaldo, A. B. (2000). Taxonomia da subfamília Corinninae (Araneae, Corinnidae) nas regiões Neotropica e Neárctica. Iheringia, Série Zoologia 89: 3-148. doi:10.1590/S0073-47212000000200001 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bonaldo, A. B., Galán-Sánchez, M. A. & García, F. (2024). Advances on the taxonomy of Megalostrata Karsch, 1880 (Araneae, Corinnidae, Corinninae), with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 5458(4): 495-523. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5458.4.2 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bonnet, P. (1956). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) (2me partie: C-F). Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 919-1926. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1880c). Arachnologische Blätter (Decas I). Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften, Dritte Folge 5: 373-409, pl. 12. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1866). Die Arachniden-Familie der Drassiden. Nürnberg, Hefte 1-6, pp. 1-304. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kraus, O. (1955b). Spinnen aus El Salvador (Arachnoidea, Araneae). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 493: 1-112. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1893b). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 105-120. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1897c). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 225-232. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1898a). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 233-288, pl. 29-39. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1899a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 41-88, pl. 2-6. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1900). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 89-192, pl. 6-15. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1898a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 193-380. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1988). Die fossilen Spinnen im Dominikanischen Bernstein. Published by the author, Straubenhardt, Germany, 378 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-05-30 New taxonomic reference entry Bonaldo, Galán-Sánchez & García, 2024 n/a
2024-05-30 Species distribution update Bonaldo, Galán-Sánchez & García, 2024 n/a (Old value)