Taxon details


Selenops candidus Muma, 1953

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-07-02
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028646]
  • Distribution: Jamaica
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; f of Selenops lunatus (Sherwood & Alayón, 2023)
Taxonomic references
Selenops aissus Petrunkevitch, 1925a: 134, f. 53-54 (f; misidentified per Muma, 1953: 32).
Selenops candidus Muma, 1953: 29, f. 51-52 (Dm).
Selenops lunatus Muma, 1953: 32, f. 50 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028670].
Selenops lunatus Alayón, 2003d: 118, f. 1-2 (f).
Selenops candidus Alayón, 2003d: 118, f. 3-6 (m, Df).
Selenops candidus Crews, 2011: 86, f. 97-100 (mf, S of Selenops lunatus).
Selenops aff. arikok Sherwood & Alayón, 2022: 166, f. 1, 3-5 (f; misidentified per Sherwood & Alayón, 2023: 16).
Selenops candidus Sherwood & Alayón, 2023: 16, f. 3-7 (f).
References

Alayón García, G. (2003d). La familia Selenopidae (Arachnida: Araneae) en Jamaica. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 8: 117-122. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Crews, S. C. (2011). A revision of the spider genus Selenops Latreille, 1819 (Arachnida, Araneae, Selenopidae) in North America, Central America and the Caribbean. ZooKeys 105: 1-182. doi:10.3897/zookeys.105.724 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Muma, M. H. (1953). A study of the spider family Selenopidae in North and Central America and the West Indies. American Museum Novitates 1619: 1-55. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1925a). Arachnida from Panama. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 27: 51-248. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D. & Alayón García, G. (2022). On a previously unreported historical stowaway selenopid originally found on Guernsey, Channel Islands (Araneae: Selenopidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 41: 166-167. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D. & Alayón García, G. (2023). Additional records of Selenops Latreille, 1819 as stowaways in the United Kingdom and reconsideration of a prior identification (Araneae: Selenopidae). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 157: 16-17. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-07-02 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon n/a (Old value)
2023-07-02 New taxonomic reference entry Sherwood & Alayón, 2023 n/a