Medmassa Simon, 1887

Sankaran, Pradeep M., Kadam, Gautam & Tripathi, Rishikesh, 2024, First records of Medmassa Simon, 1887 from India, with the description of two new species (Araneae: Corinnidae), Zootaxa 5433 (1), pp. 133-143 : 134

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5433.1.6

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10954007

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scientific name

Medmassa Simon, 1887
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Medmassa Simon, 1887 View in CoL

Type species: Megaera frenata Simon, 1877 , by monotypy.

Diagnosis. For genus description and diagnosis, see Deeleman-Reinhold (2001) and Haddad & Bosselaers (2010).

Comments. The type species of Medmassa is still known from subadult female from Philippines ( Simon 1877; World Spider Catalog 2024). There is another Philippine species of the genus, M. kltina ( Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) , which is only known from the female ( Barrion & Litsinger 1995; World Spider Catalog 2024) and it could be conspecific with the generotype.

Distribution. Subsaharan Africa, Australasia, South Asia east of Pakistan ( World Spider Catalog 2024).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Corinnidae

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