Taxon details

Family: Theridiidae / Genus: Rhomphaea

Rhomphaea brasiliensis Mello-Leitão, 1920

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006998]
  • Distribution: Venezuela, Brazil
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Argyrodes honestus Exline & Levi, 1962, 1 m (11850-115)
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Rhomphaea brasiliensis Mello-Leitão, 1919, (00600); 1 f (destroyed by the fire 2018)
  • Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Argyrodes honestus Exline & Levi, 1962, 1 f (11849-115)
Taxonomic references
Romphaea brasiliensis Mello-Leitão, 1920c: 174, unnumbered f. (Df).
Argyrodes honestus Exline & Levi, 1962: 110, f. 14-15, 41-43 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055527].
Argyrodes brasiliensis Levi, 1967b: 32 (S of Argyrodes honestus).
Rhomphaea brasiliensis Agnarsson, 2004: 480 (T from Argyrodes).
References

Agnarsson, I. (2004). Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 141(4): 447-626. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00120.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Exline, H. & Levi, H. W. (1962). American spiders of the genus Argyrodes (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 127: 75-204. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1967b). Habitat observations, records, and new South American theridiid spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 136: 21-38. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1920c). Algumas aranhas novas. Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Sciencias 3: 169-176. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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