Taxon details


Selenops mexicanus Keyserling, 1880

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2016-01-07
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028677]
  • Distribution: USA to Colombia, Galapagos Is.
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Selenops vagabundus Kraus, 1955, 1 m (8231-132)
  • Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Selenops vagabundus Kraus, 1955, 1 f (8232-132); 1 m, 1 j (8236-132); 3 f, 2 j (8237-132); 1 f (8238-132); 1 f, 1 j (8239-132); 1 j (8243-132); 1 j (8246-132)
Taxonomic references
Selenops mexicanus Keyserling, 1880: 228, pl. 6, f. 125 (Dmf).
Selenops mexicanus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900: 117, pl. 8, f. 17-18 (mf).
Selenops galapagoensis Banks, 1902c: 63, pl. 1, f. 8 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028656].
Selenops aissus Petrunkevitch, 1925a: 134, f. 50-52 (f; misidentified per Muma, 1953: 10).
Selenops galapagoensis Banks, 1930b: 276, pl. 1, f. 6 (Dm).
Selenops mexicanus Muma, 1953: 7, f. 1-4 (mf).
Selenops tehuacanus Muma, 1953: 8, f. 5-6 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028707].
Selenops galapagoensis Muma, 1953: 9, f. 7-11 (mf).
Selenops vagabundus Kraus, 1955b: 53, f. 142-144 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028712].
Selenops galapagoensis Corronca, 1998d: 132, f. 15-18 (mf).
Selenops mexicanus Crews, 2011: 34, f. 27-30, 181 (mf, S of Selenops galapagoensis, S. tehuacanus and S. vagabundus).
Selenops mexicanus Galvis & Flórez, 2015: 142, f. 4, 11-13 (m).
References

Banks, N. (1902c). Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos Expedition; 1898-1899. VII. Entomological Results (6). Arachnida. With field notes by Robert E. Snodgrass. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences 4: 49-86. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Banks, N. (1930b). Arachnida. In: The Norwegian Zoological Expedition to the Galapagos Islands 1925 conducted by Alf Wollebaek. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne 68: 271-278, pl. 1-2. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Corronca, J. A. (1998d). The South American spiders of the genus Selenops (Araneae, Selenopidae) with a description of three new species. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 33(2): 124-148. doi:10.1076/snfe.33.2.124.2153 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

Galvis, W. & Flórez-Daza, E. (2015). New records of the flattie spider genus Selenops Latreille, 1819 (Araneae: Selenopidae) from Colombia. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 27: 139-144. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1880). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Laterigradae. [Erster Band]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 283 pp., pl. 1-8. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 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

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

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

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Date Type Reference Detail
2016-01-07 New taxonomic reference entry Galvis & Flórez, 2015 n/a