Taxon details

Family: Corinnidae / Genus: Mazax

Mazax acanthaspis (Simon, 1896)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-11-14
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:024918]
  • Distribution: Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; f (10348)
  • Holotype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany; m (A0015362) of Mazax akephaloi (Perger & Pett, 2022)
  • Paratype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany; 1m (A0015360) of Mazax akephaloi (Perger & Pett, 2022)
  • Paratype: Colección Boliviana de Fauna (CBF), La Paz, Bolivia; 9m 14f of Mazax akephaloi (Perger & Pett, 2022)
  • Paratype: Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay (MNHNP [IBNP]), San Lorenzo, Paraguay; (Syn: Mazax akephaloi) 2m (IBNP-JAKCR 000.00.2.717, 719) (Perger & Pett, 2022)
  • Allotype: Colección Boliviana de Fauna (CBF), La Paz, Bolivia; f of Mazax akephaloi (Perger & Pett, 2022)
Taxonomic references
Apochinomma acanthaspis Simon, 1896b: 408 (Df).
Apochinomma acanthaspis Simon, 1897a: 160, f. 164.
Mazax akephaloi Perger & Pett, 2022: 582, f. 2A-B, 3A-B, 4A-D, 5A-B, 7B, D (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054351].
Mazax acanthaspis Silva-Junior et al., 2024: 233, f. 2B, 9A-E, 10A-J, 11A-B (mf, T from Apochinomma, S of Mazax akephaloi).
References

Perger, R. & Pett, B. L. (2022). Mazax akephaloi sp. nov. – a new Neotropical spider species resembling 'headless' Ectatomma ants (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae). Zootaxa 5450(4): 579-590. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5150.4.6 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Silva-Junior, C. J., Martínez, L., Villarreal, E. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2024). Two fancy spines and a collar: a taxonomic review of the myrmecomorphic spider genus Mazax O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae) in South America. European Journal of Taxonomy 968: 219-255. doi:10.5852/ejt.2024.968.2731 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1896b). Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Clubionidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 40(9): 400-422. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1897a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-192. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf 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
2024-11-14 Species synonymy Silva-Junior et al., 2024 Mazax akephaloi synonymized with Mazax acanthaspis
2024-11-14 New taxonomic reference entry Silva-Junior et al., 2024 n/a
2024-11-14 Species transferred to new genus Silva-Junior et al., 2024 Species transferred from Apochinomma to Mazax
2024-11-14 Species distribution update Silva-Junior et al., 2024 n/a (Old value)