Miopsalis Thorell, 1890
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Miopsalis Thorell, 1890 View in CoL
Miopsalis Thorell, 1890: 381 View in CoL ; Hansen and Sørensen 1904: 99; Roewer, 1923: 47 –48, fig. 50; Roewer, 1926: 263; Shear, 1979: 356 –357; Giribet 2000: 72 (as nomen dubium); Clouse & Giribet (in press) (validated).
Type species: Miopsalis pulicaria Thorell, 1890 View in CoL , by monotypy.
Other species included: Miopsalis collinsi ( Shear, 1993) , Miopsalis globosa ( Schwendinger & Giribet, 2004) new comb., Miopsalis gryllospeca ( Shear, 1993) , Miopsalis kinabalu ( Shear, 1993) new comb., Miopsalis leakeyi ( Shear, 1993) new comb., Miopsalis lionota ( Pocock, 1897) , Miopsalis mulu ( Shear, 1993) new comb., Miopsalis pocockii ( Hansen & Sørensen, 1904) new comb., Miopsalis sabah ( Shear, 1993) , Miopsalis silhavyi ( Rambla, 1991) , Miopsalis tarumpitao ( Shear, 1993) .
Description: Leptopsalinae, with the following: anal gland pores usually present; chelicerae often with extensive granulations on the second article; Rambla’s organ sometimes present in large species; prosoma often relatively long; ventral prosomal complex usually large, with fourth coxae meeting for a length longer than the gonostome, distinct sternum present, and second coxae broadly meeting; body profile variable, but often flat in species of various sizes; sternal opisthosomal sulci between sternites 3 and 4, 4 and 5, and 5 and 6 often straight, parallel; posterior gonostome usually straight or weakly concave.
Distribution: Mostly Borneo and to a lesser extent Peninsula Malaysia, central Sumatra, and the Philippine islands of Palawan and Mindanao.
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Stylocellinae |
Miopsalis Thorell, 1890
Clouse, Ronald M. 2012 |
Miopsalis
Giribet 2000: 72 |
Shear 1979: 356 |
Roewer 1923: 47 |
Hansen 1904: 99 |