Fourteen new generic and ten new specific synonymies in Pholcidae (Araneae), and transfer of Mystes Bristowe to Filistatidae
Author
Huber, Bernhard A.
Author
Colmenares, Pío A.
Author
Ramirez, Martin J.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3847
3
413
422
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3847.3.5
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1175-5326
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Mystes oonopiformis
Bristowe, 1938
Mystes oonopiformis
Bristowe 1938
: 319
–321, figs. 10–13 (♀).
Note.
The
type
specimen (♀
holotype
from
Malaysia
, Perak, Parit Buntar [
5°07′N
,
100°30′E
], collected by H.T.
Pagden [probably
1929–1931
]) should be deposited in the Natural History Museum, London, but it is probably lost. The description and drawings provided by
Bristowe (1938)
clearly indicate that this is a filistatid rather than a pholcid: strong palpal claw; flat oval carapace with narrow pronounced clypeus and compact ocular area; large labium fused to the sternum with a constriction between the endites; and dark, elongate tooth opposing the cheliceral fang. The small size of the female indicates that it is probably a member of the subfamily Prithinae, although the characteristic calamistrum in three rows is not reported in the original description. Several genera of Prithinae occur in Southeast Asia, and
Mystes
may well be a synonym of one of them. This problem will have to be solved by a future reviser of
Filistatidae
.