The spider family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneoidea): a relimitation and revision at the generic level
Author
Rix, Michael
Western Australian Museum, Welshpool DC, Perth, Australia
Author
Harvey, Mark
Western Australian Museum, Perth, Welshpool, Australia
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Micropholcomma caeligenum
Crosby & Bishop, 1927
Figs 7A
,
9A
, 12D, 13–14, 15A–B
Micropholcomma caeligenus
Crosby & 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.
Micropholcomma caeligenum
Crosby & Bishop
:
Davies, 1985: 89
.
Platnick, 2009
.
Selected
material examined.
AUSTRALIA
:
Victoria
:
Emerald
,
Cardinia Reservoir
,
20.IV.2006
,
M. Rix
, 1♁,
3♀
(
WAM
T77727
)
;
same data,
1♀
(
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♀
(
WAM
T94449
)
;
same data except
5.XI.1997
,
G. & S. Monteith
, 1♁,
2♀
(
QMB
S41824
)
;
Great Otway National Park
, track to
Cora Lynn Cascades
, near
Lorne
,
22.IV.2006
,
M. Rix
,
2♀
(
WAM
T94447
)
;
Yarra Ranges National Park
, ‘
The Beeches’
, near
Marysville
,
18.IV.2006
,
M. Rix
, 1♁,
1♀
(
WAM
T94448
)
.
Remarks
.
Micropholcomma caeligenum
is similar to, and often sympatric with,
M. bryophilum
, 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.).