Taxon details

Family: Corinnidae / Genus: Messapus

Messapus natalis (Pocock, 1898)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-08-30
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025186]
  • Distribution: Mozambique, South Africa
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; f (Bonaldo, 2000)
Taxonomic references
Corinna natalis Pocock, 1898c: 221, pl. 8, f. 14 (Df).
Corinna natalis Bonaldo, 2000: 40 (belongs not to Corinnidae).
Corinna natalis Haddad, 2005: 28, f. 1-6 (f, Dm).
Messapus natalis Haddad, 2013b: 20, f. 4-5, 29-30 (T from Corinna).
Messapus natalis Haddad et al., 2023: 63, f. 1-10 (mf).
References

Bonaldo, A. B. (2000). Taxonomia da subfamília Corinninae (Araneae, Corinnidae) nas regiões Neotropica e Neárctica. Iheringia, Série Zoologia 89: 3-148. doi:10.1590/S0073-47212000000200001 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Haddad, C. R. (2005). A re-description of Corinna natalis Pocock, 1898 (Araneae, Corinnidae), Africa's largest dark sac spider, with natural history notes. Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 2: 27-32. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Haddad, C. R. (2013b). Taxonomic notes on the spider genus Messapus Simon, 1898 (Araneae, Corinnidae), with the description of the new genera Copuetta and Wasaka and the first cladistic analysis of Afrotropical Castianeirinae. Zootaxa 3688: 1-79. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3688.1.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Haddad, C. R., Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2023). The Corinnidae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 72 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.8300753 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1898c). The Arachnida from the province of Natal, South Africa, contained in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 2(9): 197-226, pl. 8. doi:10.1080/00222939808678036 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Detail
2023-08-30 New taxonomic reference entry Haddad et al., 2023 n/a