Micropholcomma caeligenum Crosby &amp; Bishop B 1927
Creators: name: Rix, Michael
name: Harvey, Mark
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Micropholcommatidae
Micropholcomma
Micropholcomma caeligenum

description: <i>Micropholcomma caeligenum</i> Crosby &amp; Bishop, 1927 Figs 7A, 9A, 12D, 13–14, 15A–B <i>Micropholcomma caeligenus</i> Crosby &amp; Bishop, 1927: 152, pl. 16, fig. 19 (holotype male from Emerald, Victoria, Australia, in Cornell University collection, not examined, probably lost). Roewer, 1942: 392. Hickman, 1944: 183, figs 8–10. Bonnet, 1957: 2906. Forster, 1959: 328, fig. 135. <i>Micropholcomma caeligenum</i> Crosby &amp; Bishop: Davies, 1985: 89. Platnick, 2009. <b>Selected material examined.</b> <b>AUSTRALIA: Victoria:</b> Emerald, Cardinia Reservoir, 20.IV.2006, M. Rix, 1♁, 3&amp;female; (WAM T77727); same data, 1&amp;female; (WAM T80014 DNA- MPE); Great Otway National Park, Maits Rest, 10 km W. of Apollo Bay, 23.IV.2006, M. Rix, 1♁ (WAM T94450); Great Otway National Park, Melba Gully, 24.IV.2006, M. Rix, 1&amp;female; (WAM T94449); same data except 5.XI.1997, G. &amp; S. Monteith, 1♁, 2&amp;female; (QMB S41824); Great Otway National Park, track to Cora Lynn Cascades, near Lorne, 22.IV.2006, M. Rix, 2&amp;female; (WAM T94447); Yarra Ranges National Park, ‘ The Beeches’, near Marysville, 18.IV.2006, M. Rix, 1♁, 1&amp;female; (WAM T94448). <b>Remarks.</b> <i>Micropholcomma caeligenum</i> is similar to, and often sympatric with, <i>M. bryophilum</i>, e.g. in the Yarra Ranges and Otway Ranges of Victoria. It can be most easily distinguished by the absence of a pedipalp on the female. The holotype specimen described by Crosby and Bishop (1927) does not appear to be in the Cornell University collection as stated in the original description, or in the AMNH collection, and is probably lost (N. Platnick, pers. comm.).
description: Published as part of <i>Rix, Michael &amp; Harvey, Mark, 2010, The spider family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneoidea): a relimitation and revision at the generic level, pp. 1-321 in ZooKeys 36 (36)</i> on pages 24-25, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.36.306, http://zenodo.org/record/576620
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