Taxon details

Family: Pholcidae / Genus: Metagonia

Metagonia bellavista Gertsch & Peck, 1992

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-12-22
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003507]
  • Distribution: Galapagos
  • External Resources *:
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA; f (Huber et al., 2022)
  • Paratype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA; 2m 5f 3j (Gertsch, 1986)
Taxonomic references
Metagonia bellavista Gertsch & Peck, 1992: 1195, f. 46-49 (Dmf).
Metagonia bellavista Peck & Finston, 1993: 26, f. 2 (mf).
Metagonia bellavista Huber et al., 2022: 660, f. 24-25, 30-31, 37-39, 49-50 (mf).
Metagonia bellavista Baert et al., 2023: 21, f. 69A-E (mf).
References

Baert, L., Maelfait, J.-P., Desender, K., Hendrickx, F., Dekoninck, W., Berthet, M., Bouckaert, K., Caudron, J. & Leclercq, M. (2023). Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands. Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1-188. [includes figs of 5 undescribed species] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gertsch, W. J. & Peck, S. B. (1992). The pholcid spiders of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (Araneae: Pholcidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 70(6): 1185-1199. doi:10.1139/z92-166 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. A., Meng, G. L., Acurio, A. E., Astrin, J. J., Inclán, D. J., Izquierdo, M. A. & Valdez-Mondragón, A. (2022). Metagonia spiders of Galápagos: blind cave-dwellers and their epigean relatives (Araneae, Pholcidae). Invertebrate Systematics 36(7): 647-678. doi:10.1071/IS21082 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Peck, S. B. & Finston, T. L. (1993). Galapagos Islands troglobites: the questions of tropical troglobites, parapatric distributions with eyed-sister-species, and their origin by parapatric speciation. Mémoires de Biospéologie 20: 19-37. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-12-22 New taxonomic reference entry Baert et al., 2023 n/a
2022-08-16 New taxonomic reference entry Huber et al., 2022 n/a