Mesabolivar González-Sponga, 1998

Huber, Bernhard A., Colmenares, Pío A. & Ramirez, Martin J., 2014, Fourteen new generic and ten new specific synonymies in Pholcidae (Araneae), and transfer of Mystes Bristowe to Filistatidae, Zootaxa 3847 (3), pp. 413-422 : 418

Mesabolivar González-Sponga, 1998

Mesabolivari González-Sponga, 1998: 27.

Mesabolivar: Huber 2000: 189 .

Kaliana Huber, 2000: 271 . Synonymized by Astrin, Misof & Huber (2007).

Autana González-Sponga, 2011b: 40 ; type species: Autana autanensis González-Sponga, 2011b ; new synonymy. Caruaya González-Sponga, 2011b: 40 –41; type species: Caruaya anseriformis González-Sponga, 2011b; new synonymy. Rioparaguanus González-Sponga, 2005: 104; type species: Rioparaguanus spinosus González-Sponga, 2005; new synonymy.

Justifications of synonymies. Mesabolivar anseriformis ( González-Sponga, 2011b); new combination. The procursus of this species is strongly curved, similar to the type species M. pseudoblechroscelis González-Sponga, 1998 and to the closely related M. huambisa Huber, 2000 . However, the chelicerae of M. anseriformis (2♂ types from Bolívar State, Venezuela , re-examined by PAC) have a distinctive pair of small apophyses close to the fangs (González-Sponga’s drawing of the chelicerae are confusing and wrong). Several males and females of this species were collected in 2002 at km 109 on the road El Dorado to Santa Elena de Uairén, Estado Bolívar, Venezuela (BAH), about 140 km from the type locality. The material is deposited in ZFMK.

Mesabolivar spinosus ( González-Sponga, 2005) ; new combination. We have not re-examined the type specimens (2♂ 2♀ from Bolívar State, Venezuela ), but González-Sponga’s drawings clearly show the distinctive characters of Mesabolivar (male cheliceral apophyses close to median line; median epigynal pocket) and the shape of the palp reminds strongly of the widespread M. aurantiacus ( Mello-Leitão, 1930) .

For Autana , see Mesabolivar aurantiacus below.