Mimetidae Simon, 1881

Ligia R. Benavides & Gustavo Hormiga, 2016, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical pirate spiders of the genus Gelanor Thorell, 1869 (Araneae, Mimetidae) with the description of five new species, Zootaxa 4064 (1), pp. 1-72 : 9

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4064.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BEC06753-A9D1-4EDF-8537-D67AF2F94942

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6075760

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/463E87DA-FFFA-2E7F-B48C-1E39FBCE9331

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scientific name

Mimetidae Simon, 1881
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Family Mimetidae Simon, 1881 View in CoL View at ENA

Type genus: Mimetus Hentz, 1832

Type species: Mimetus syllepsicus Hentz, 1832

Description. Mimetidae are recognized by the following combination of characters: AME placed on a protuberance, cheliceral setae on the mesal side and crossing each other forming an "X", prolateral medial side of the chelicerae with macrosetae projecting forward, chelicerae fused at the base, peg teeth (modified macrosetae on the prolateral distal side of the chelicerae), male palp rotated so the bulb is retrolateral and the cymbium prolateral, presence of a concavity on the distal edge of the tibia where the palp sclerites attach, and the characteristic pattern of macrosetae on tibiae and metatarsi of legs I and II that consist of a row of raptorial macrosetae (spines) intercalated by smaller macrosetae on the prolateral side of tibiae and metatarsi I and II.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Mimetidae

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