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Genus
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<taxonomicName authority="Simon, 1880" authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1880" box="[223,502,800,827]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[223,341,800,827]" italics="true" pageId="79" pageNumber="80">Taphiassa</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation author="Simon E" box="[348,502,800,826]" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" pagination="164 - 175" refId="ref72524" refString="Simon E (1880). Materiaux pour servir a une faune arachnologique de la Nouvelle-Caledonie. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 23: 164 - 175." type="journal article" year="1880">Simon, 1880</bibRefCitation>
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<treatmentCitation author="Simon E" box="[140,473,871,897]" page="172" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" year="1880">
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<taxonomicName authority="Simon, 1880: 172" authorityName="Simon" authorityPageNumber="172" authorityYear="1880" box="[140,473,871,897]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
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<emphasis box="[140,244,871,897]" italics="true" pageId="79" pageNumber="80">Taphiassa</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation author="Simon E" box="[256,473,871,897]" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" pagination="164 - 175" refId="ref72524" refString="Simon E (1880). Materiaux pour servir a une faune arachnologique de la Nouvelle-Caledonie. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 23: 164 - 175." type="journal article" year="1880">Simon, 1880: 172</bibRefCitation>
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.
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species by monotypy
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<taxonomicName authority="Simon, 1880" authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1880" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="impressa">
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<emphasis box="[808,1015,871,897]" italics="true" pageId="79" pageNumber="80">Taphiassa impressa</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation author="Simon E" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" pagination="164 - 175" refId="ref72524" refString="Simon E (1880). Materiaux pour servir a une faune arachnologique de la Nouvelle-Caledonie. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 23: 164 - 175." type="journal article" year="1880">Simon, 1880</bibRefCitation>
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.
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<treatmentCitation author="Roewer CF" box="[264,494,906,932]" page="414" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" year="1942">
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<bibRefCitation author="Roewer CF" box="[264,494,906,932]" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" refId="ref72288" refString="Roewer CF (1942) Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940. 1. Band (Mesothelae, Orthognatha, Lapidognatha: Dysderaeformia, Scytodiformia, Pholciformia, Zodariiformia, Hersiliaeformia, Argyopiformia). Paul Budy, Berlin, 1040 pp." type="book" year="1942">Roewer, 1942: 414</bibRefCitation>
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.
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<treatmentCitation author="Bonnet P" box="[510,755,906,933]" page="4238" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" year="1959">
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<bibRefCitation author="Bonnet P" box="[510,755,906,933]" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" pagination="4231 - 5058" refId="ref69454" refString="Bonnet P (1959) Bibliographia Araneorum, Tome II (5 me partie: T- Z). Douladoure, Toulouse, 4231 - 5058." type="book chapter" year="1959">Bonnet, 1959: 4238</bibRefCitation>
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</treatmentCitation>
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. Transferred from
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Sundevall" authorityYear="1833" box="[979,1108,906,932]" class="Arachnida" family="Theridiidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Theridiidae</taxonomicName>
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to
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Hickman" authorityYear="1931" box="[218,444,941,967]" class="Arachnida" family="Symphytognathidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Symphytognathidae</taxonomicName>
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by
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<treatmentCitation author="Levi HW & Levi LR" box="[491,755,941,967]" page="29" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" year="1962">
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<bibRefCitation author="Levi HW & Levi LR" box="[491,755,941,967]" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" pagination="1 - 71" refId="ref71246" refString="Levi HW, Levi LR (1962) The genera of the spider family Theridiidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 127: 1 - 71." type="journal article" year="1962">Levi & Levi, 1962: 29</bibRefCitation>
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</treatmentCitation>
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. Transferred from
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Hickman" authorityYear="1931" class="Arachnida" family="Symphytognathidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Symphytognathidae</taxonomicName>
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to
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Platnick" baseAuthorityYear="2009" box="[329,473,976,1002]" class="Arachnida" family="Mysmenidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Mysmenidae</taxonomicName>
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by
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<treatmentCitation author="Forster RR & Platnick NI" box="[525,858,976,1003]" page="2" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" year="1977">
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<bibRefCitation author="Forster RR & Platnick NI" box="[525,858,976,1003]" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" pagination="1 - 29" refId="ref70201" refString="Forster RR, Platnick NI (1977) A review of the spider family Symphytognathidae (Arachnida, Araneae). American Museum Novitates 2619: 1 - 29." type="journal article" year="1977">Forster & Platnick, 1977: 2</bibRefCitation>
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.
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<treatmentCitation author="Brignoli PM" box="[874,1107,976,1002]" page="730" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" year="1980">
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<bibRefCitation author="Brignoli PM" box="[874,1107,976,1002]" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" pagination="727 - 738" refId="ref69522" refString="Brignoli PM (1980) On few Mysmenidae from the Oriental and Australian regions (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 87: 727 - 738." type="journal article" year="1980">Brignoli, 1980: 730</bibRefCitation>
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(also transferred ‘
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1880" box="[383,487,1011,1037]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
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<emphasis box="[383,487,1011,1037]" italics="true" pageId="79" pageNumber="80">Taphiassa</emphasis>
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’
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<taxonomicName authority="Simon, 1895" authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1895" box="[503,773,1011,1038]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="punctigera">
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<emphasis box="[503,615,1012,1037]" italics="true" pageId="79" pageNumber="80">punctigera</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation author="Simon E" box="[624,773,1011,1038]" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" pagination="131 - 160" refId="ref72554" refString="Simon E (1895) Etudes arachnologiques. 26 e Memoire. XLI. Descriptions d'especes et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 64: 131 - 160." type="journal article" year="1895">Simon, 1895</bibRefCitation>
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to
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<emphasis box="[950,1091,1011,1037]" italics="true" pageId="79" pageNumber="80">incertae sedis</emphasis>
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).
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<treatmentCitation author="Brignoli PM" box="[185,413,1047,1073]" page="379" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" year="1983">
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<bibRefCitation author="Brignoli PM" box="[185,413,1047,1073]" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" refId="ref69575" refString="Brignoli PM (1983) A Catalogue of the Araneae Described Between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 755 pp." type="book" year="1983">Brignoli, 1983: 379</bibRefCitation>
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.
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<bibRefCitation author="Platnick NI" box="[424,594,1047,1073]" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" refId="ref71855" refString="Platnick NI (2009) The World Spider Catalog, Version 10.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. http: // research. amnh. org / entomology / spiders / catalog / [accessed 20. X. 2009]" type="url" year="2009">Platnick, 2009</bibRefCitation>
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.
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<treatmentCitationGroup pageId="79" pageNumber="80">
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<treatmentCitation author="Forster RR" box="[140,462,1082,1109]" page="301" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" year="1959">
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<taxonomicName authority="Forster, 1959: 301" authorityName="Forster" authorityPageNumber="301" authorityYear="1959" box="[140,462,1082,1109]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Parapua" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
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<emphasis box="[140,230,1083,1108]" italics="true" pageId="79" pageNumber="80">Parapua</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation author="Forster RR" box="[242,462,1082,1109]" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" pagination="269 - 329" refId="ref70149" refString="Forster RR (1959) The spiders of the family Symphytognathidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 86: 269 - 329." type="journal article" year="1959">Forster, 1959: 301</bibRefCitation>
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.
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species by original designation
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<taxonomicName authority="Forster, 1959" authorityName="Forster" authorityYear="1959" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Parapua" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="punctata">
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<emphasis box="[910,1107,1083,1108]" italics="true" pageId="79" pageNumber="80">Parapua punctata</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation author="Forster RR" box="[185,339,1117,1144]" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" pagination="269 - 329" refId="ref70149" refString="Forster RR (1959) The spiders of the family Symphytognathidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 86: 269 - 329." type="journal article" year="1959">Forster, 1959</bibRefCitation>
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.
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<treatmentCitation author="Brignoli PM" box="[351,580,1117,1143]" page="374" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" year="1983">
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<bibRefCitation author="Brignoli PM" box="[351,580,1117,1143]" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" refId="ref69575" refString="Brignoli PM (1983) A Catalogue of the Araneae Described Between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 755 pp." type="book" year="1983">Brignoli, 1983: 374</bibRefCitation>
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</treatmentCitation>
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.
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<bibRefCitation author="Platnick NI" box="[592,762,1117,1143]" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" refId="ref71855" refString="Platnick NI (2009) The World Spider Catalog, Version 10.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. http: // research. amnh. org / entomology / spiders / catalog / [accessed 20. X. 2009]" type="url" year="2009">Platnick, 2009</bibRefCitation>
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[774,853,1117,1143]" pageId="79" pageNumber="80">syn. n.</emphasis>
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(but see also
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<bibRefCitation author="Brignoli PM" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" pagination="727 - 738" refId="ref69522" refString="Brignoli PM (1980) On few Mysmenidae from the Oriental and Australian regions (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 87: 727 - 738." type="journal article" year="1980">Brignoli, 1980: 731</bibRefCitation>
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).
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<emphasis box="[140,251,1222,1248]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" reason="1">Affinities</emphasis>
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.
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The genus
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<emphasis box="[391,495,1223,1249]" italics="true" pageId="79" pageNumber="80">Taphiassa</emphasis>
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appears to be the sister-lineage to
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<emphasis box="[899,987,1223,1249]" italics="true" pageId="79" pageNumber="80">Olgania</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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from
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(
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.
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Species of
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1880" box="[443,547,1293,1319]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
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<emphasis box="[443,547,1293,1319]" italics="true" pageId="79" pageNumber="80">Taphiassa</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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can be distinguished from species of
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<taxonomicName box="[982,1070,1293,1319]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Olgania" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="79" pageNumber="80" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
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<emphasis box="[982,1070,1293,1319]" italics="true" pageId="79" pageNumber="80">Olgania</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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by the presence of a normal, plate-like anterior sclerite (Fig. 165C), the presence of an enlarged subtegulum (Fig. 174A), and the presence of a seta projecting from the proximal toothed mound of the cheliceral promargin (Figs 159B, 172F). Other diagnostic characters include the presence of eight eyes (Fig. 152A), and the absence of bulging anterior projections on the male chelicerae (Fig. 157E).
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.
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</emphasis>
|
||
Very small, entelegyne
|
||
<taxonomicName box="[615,746,1504,1530]" order="Null" pageId="79" pageNumber="132" rank="superFamily" superFamily="Araneoidea">Araneoidea</taxonomicName>
|
||
: total length 1.00 to 2.20.
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="79" pageNumber="80">Cephalothorax</emphasis>
|
||
: Carapace with glandular depressions above maxillae (Figs 170E, 170G– H); cuticle of carapace and sternum heavily punctate, covered with glandular pits (Figs 152A–C); margins fused to sternum via pleural sclerites. Eight eyes present on anterior margin of pars cephalica (Fig. 152A); eyes usually subequal, AME greater than three-quarters diameter of ALE (Fig. 152C). Chelicerae without bulging anterior projections in males; promargin with one sessile tooth and separate proximal, toothed mound near tip of fang bearing prolateral seta (Figs 159A–B); fused setal sockets, peg teeth and ectal stridulatory ridges absent.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph blockId="80.[140,1108,166,1672]" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">
|
||
<emphasis box="[185,451,307,333]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">Legs and female pedipalp</emphasis>
|
||
: Legs three-clawed (Figs 160E–F), covered with smooth or serrate hair-like setae; superior claws of legs I–II often strongly pectinate (Figs 173D– E); superior claws of legs III–IV usually asymmetric (Fig. 173F). Trichobothria present on legs; tibiae each with three (legs I–III) or four (legs III–IV) trichobothria; metatarsi each with (legs I–IV) (Fig. 160C) or sometimes without (leg IV) single trichobothrium. Female pedipalp entire (Fig. 159C), reduced or vestigial (Fig. 170F); claw absent (Fig. 159D).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph blockId="80.[140,1108,166,1672]" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">
|
||
<emphasis box="[185,287,554,580]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">Abdomen</emphasis>
|
||
: Abdomen globose; anterior sclerite present around epigastric region and petiole; dorsal scute absent on males and females (Figs 155A–B); posterior sclerotic ring surrounding spinnerets and colulus. Six spinnerets situated posterior to fleshy colulus (Figs 162, 175); PMS with single medial AC gland spigot and posterior seta; PLS with reduced triad consisting of FL gland spigot and single AG gland spigot. Anterior tracheal system well-developed, with multiple radiating tracheae (Figs 169E–F); posterior tracheal spiracle vestigial (Figs 152F, 154D).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph blockId="80.[140,1108,166,1672]" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">
|
||
<emphasis box="[185,288,800,826]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">Genitalia</emphasis>
|
||
: Male pedipalp (Figs 161, 174) relatively small; patella with retrolaterallydirected, hooked ligulate retrolateral apophysis and strongly recurved distal apophysis; subtegulum enlarged, bulging posteriorly; tegulum smooth, with curved evaginated tegular ridge; embolus exposed, long (length> 5× width), curving distally. Female genitalia (Figs 154A–C, 169) with pair of separate, globular anterior spermathecae; insemination ducts simple, straight; fertilisation ducts simple, curved.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection lastPageId="81" lastPageNumber="82" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" type="distribution">
|
||
<paragraph blockId="80.[140,1108,166,1672]" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[185,344,1011,1037]" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">
|
||
<emphasis box="[185,339,1011,1037]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" reason="1">Distribution</emphasis>
|
||
.
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
Eastern and south-western mainland
|
||
<collectingCountry box="[805,908,1011,1037]" name="Australia" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">Australia</collectingCountry>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectingRegion box="[924,1034,1011,1037]" country="Australia" name="Tasmania" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">Tasmania</collectingRegion>
|
||
, Lord Howe Island,
|
||
<collectingCountry box="[298,474,1047,1073]" name="New Caledonia" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">New Caledonia</collectingCountry>
|
||
and
|
||
<collectingCountry box="[530,683,1047,1073]" name="New Zealand" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">New Zealand</collectingCountry>
|
||
(Fig. 217).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph blockId="80.[140,1108,166,1672]" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[185,355,1081,1107]" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">
|
||
<emphasis box="[185,350,1081,1107]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" reason="1">Composition</emphasis>
|
||
.
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
Two described species,
|
||
<taxonomicName authority="Simon, 1880" authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1880" box="[643,1020,1082,1108]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="impressa">
|
||
<emphasis box="[643,855,1082,1108]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">Taphiassa impressa</emphasis>
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Simon E" box="[866,1020,1082,1108]" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" pagination="164 - 175" refId="ref72524" refString="Simon E (1880). Materiaux pour servir a une faune arachnologique de la Nouvelle-Caledonie. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 23: 164 - 175." type="journal article" year="1880">Simon, 1880</bibRefCitation>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName authority="(Forster, 1959)" baseAuthorityName="Forster" baseAuthorityYear="1959" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Parapua" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="punctata">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">T. punctata</emphasis>
|
||
(
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Forster RR" box="[254,413,1117,1144]" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" pagination="269 - 329" refId="ref70149" refString="Forster RR (1959) The spiders of the family Symphytognathidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 86: 269 - 329." type="journal article" year="1959">Forster, 1959</bibRefCitation>
|
||
)
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and the four new species
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rix & Harvey" authorityYear="2010" box="[731,856,1118,1143]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="castanea">
|
||
<emphasis box="[731,856,1118,1143]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">T. castanea</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rix & Harvey" authorityYear="2010" box="[873,984,1117,1143]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="globosa">
|
||
<emphasis box="[873,984,1117,1143]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">T. globosa</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rix & Harvey" authorityYear="2010" box="[1001,1108,1118,1143]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="magna">
|
||
<emphasis box="[1001,1108,1118,1143]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">T. magna</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rix & Harvey" authorityYear="2010" box="[192,306,1152,1178]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="robertsi">
|
||
<emphasis box="[192,306,1152,1178]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">T. robertsi</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. Undescribed species are also known from
|
||
<collectingCountry box="[813,995,1152,1179]" name="New Caledonia" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">New Caledonia</collectingCountry>
|
||
and eastern
|
||
<collectingCountry box="[188,295,1187,1213]" name="Australia" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">Australia</collectingCountry>
|
||
. Note that the species
|
||
<taxonomicName authority="Simon, 1895" authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1895" box="[574,974,1187,1214]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="punctigera">
|
||
<emphasis box="[574,808,1187,1213]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">Taphiassa punctigera</emphasis>
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Simon E" box="[819,974,1187,1214]" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" pagination="131 - 160" refId="ref72554" refString="Simon E (1895) Etudes arachnologiques. 26 e Memoire. XLI. Descriptions d'especes et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 64: 131 - 160." type="journal article" year="1895">Simon, 1895</bibRefCitation>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is a
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Sundevall" authorityYear="1833" class="Arachnida" family="Theridiidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Theridiidae</taxonomicName>
|
||
<emphasis box="[220,366,1223,1249]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">incertae sedis</emphasis>
|
||
(
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Brignoli PM" box="[384,554,1223,1249]" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" pagination="727 - 738" refId="ref69522" refString="Brignoli PM (1980) On few Mysmenidae from the Oriental and Australian regions (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 87: 727 - 738." type="journal article" year="1980">Brignoli 1980</bibRefCitation>
|
||
;
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Platnick NI" box="[568,738,1223,1249]" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" refId="ref71855" refString="Platnick NI (2009) The World Spider Catalog, Version 10.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. http: // research. amnh. org / entomology / spiders / catalog / [accessed 20. X. 2009]" type="url" year="2009">Platnick 2009</bibRefCitation>
|
||
), not conspecific or congeneric with
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1880" box="[200,325,1259,1284]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="impressa">
|
||
<emphasis box="[200,325,1259,1284]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">T. impressa</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph blockId="80.[140,1108,166,1672]" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[185,476,1293,1319]" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">
|
||
<emphasis box="[185,364,1293,1319]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" reason="1">Nomenclatural</emphasis>
|
||
remarks.
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
The genus
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1880" box="[607,711,1293,1319]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[607,711,1293,1319]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">Taphiassa</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
was originally described by
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Simon E" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" pagination="164 - 175" refId="ref72524" refString="Simon E (1880). Materiaux pour servir a une faune arachnologique de la Nouvelle-Caledonie. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 23: 164 - 175." type="journal article" year="1880">Simon (1880)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
for the species
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1880" box="[405,530,1329,1354]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="impressa">
|
||
<emphasis box="[405,530,1329,1354]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">T. impressa</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, from Nouméa,
|
||
<collectingCountry box="[730,913,1328,1355]" name="New Caledonia" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">New Caledonia</collectingCountry>
|
||
. No illustrations were provided with the original description, and the species had never been adequately illustrated (
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Brignoli PM" box="[267,431,1399,1425]" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" pagination="727 - 738" refId="ref69522" refString="Brignoli PM (1980) On few Mysmenidae from the Oriental and Australian regions (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 87: 727 - 738." type="journal article" year="1980">Brignoli 1980</bibRefCitation>
|
||
).
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Levi HW & Levi LR" box="[451,687,1399,1426]" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" pagination="1 - 71" refId="ref71246" refString="Levi HW, Levi LR (1962) The genera of the spider family Theridiidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 127: 1 - 71." type="journal article" year="1962">Levi and Levi (1962)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
transferred
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1880" box="[823,943,1399,1424]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="impressa">
|
||
<emphasis box="[823,943,1399,1424]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">T. impressa</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
from the
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Sundevall" authorityYear="1833" class="Arachnida" family="Theridiidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Theridiidae</taxonomicName>
|
||
to the
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Hickman" authorityYear="1931" box="[314,544,1434,1460]" class="Arachnida" family="Symphytognathidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Symphytognathidae</taxonomicName>
|
||
, while
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Forster RR & Platnick NI" box="[629,949,1434,1460]" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" pagination="1 - 29" refId="ref70201" refString="Forster RR, Platnick NI (1977) A review of the spider family Symphytognathidae (Arachnida, Araneae). American Museum Novitates 2619: 1 - 29." type="journal article" year="1977">Forster and Platnick (1977)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
transferred it from the
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Hickman" authorityYear="1931" box="[250,476,1469,1495]" class="Arachnida" family="Symphytognathidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Symphytognathidae</taxonomicName>
|
||
to the
|
||
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Platnick" baseAuthorityYear="2009" box="[564,712,1469,1495]" class="Arachnida" family="Mysmenidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Mysmenidae</taxonomicName>
|
||
. It was
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Brignoli PM" box="[802,981,1469,1495]" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" pagination="727 - 738" refId="ref69522" refString="Brignoli PM (1980) On few Mysmenidae from the Oriental and Australian regions (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 87: 727 - 738." type="journal article" year="1980">Brignoli (1980)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
who, with remarkable insight aided only be Simon’s original Latin description, first noted the similarity of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1880" box="[285,407,1540,1565]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="impressa">
|
||
<emphasis box="[285,407,1540,1565]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">T. impressa</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
to
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Forster" authorityYear="1959" box="[446,536,1540,1565]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Parapua" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[446,536,1540,1565]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">Parapua</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, and the analysis of
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Rix MG & Harvey MS & Roberts JD" box="[771,959,1539,1566]" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" pagination="1031 - 1048" refId="ref72243" refString="Rix MG, Harvey MS, Roberts JD (2008) Molecular phylogenetics of the spider family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida: Araneae) using nuclear rRNA genes (18 S and 28 S). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46: 1031 - 1048." type="journal article" year="2008">Rix et al. (2008)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
also inferred a close sister-group relationship between
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1880" box="[616,720,1575,1601]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[616,720,1575,1601]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">Taphiassa</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Forster" authorityYear="1959" box="[783,873,1575,1600]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Parapua" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[783,873,1575,1600]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">Parapua</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1880" box="[891,995,1575,1601]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[891,995,1575,1601]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">Taphiassa</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is hereby transferred from the
|
||
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Platnick" baseAuthorityYear="2009" box="[376,520,1610,1636]" class="Arachnida" family="Mysmenidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Mysmenidae</taxonomicName>
|
||
to the
|
||
<taxonomicName box="[603,866,1610,1636]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Micropholcommatidae</taxonomicName>
|
||
, and
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1880" box="[928,1032,1610,1636]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[928,1032,1610,1636]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">Taphiassa</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is formally recognised as a senior generic synonym of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Forster" authorityYear="1959" box="[688,778,1646,1671]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Parapua" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="80" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[688,778,1646,1671]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="81">Parapua</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph blockId="81.[140,1108,166,510]" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" box="[185,434,166,193]" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">
|
||
<emphasis box="[185,318,166,192]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="81" pageNumber="82" reason="1">Taxonomic</emphasis>
|
||
remarks.
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
Species of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1880" box="[576,680,167,193]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="81" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[576,680,167,193]" italics="true" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">Taphiassa</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
can be arbitrarily divided into two groups based upon somatic features – the ‘
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1880" box="[631,735,202,228]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="81" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[631,735,202,228]" italics="true" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">Taphiassa</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
group’ and the ‘
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Forster" authorityYear="1959" box="[928,1018,203,228]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Parapua" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="81" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[928,1018,203,228]" italics="true" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">Parapua</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
group’. Species in the ‘
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Forster" authorityYear="1959" box="[311,401,238,263]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Parapua" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="81" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[311,401,238,263]" italics="true" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">Parapua</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
group’ (including
|
||
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Forster" baseAuthorityYear="1959" box="[616,742,238,263]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Parapua" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="81" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="punctata">
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<emphasis box="[616,742,238,263]" italics="true" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">T. punctata</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
|
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,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rix & Harvey" authorityYear="2010" box="[757,878,238,263]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="81" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="castanea">
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<emphasis box="[757,878,238,263]" italics="true" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">T. castanea</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and similar species) are generally smaller, darker coloured, with relatively shorter legs and smaller female pedipalps than species in the ‘
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1880" box="[489,593,307,333]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="81" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[489,593,307,333]" italics="true" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">Taphiassa</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
group’, which are often relatively large with strongly patterned abdomens. A spectrum of intermediate morphologies exists, however, and the division seems merely phenetic. Many additional species of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1880" box="[963,1067,378,404]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Taphiassa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="81" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[963,1067,378,404]" italics="true" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">Taphiassa</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
are known from
|
||
<collectingCountry box="[290,389,413,439]" name="Australia" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">Australia</collectingCountry>
|
||
and
|
||
<collectingCountry box="[449,626,413,440]" name="New Caledonia" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">New Caledonia</collectingCountry>
|
||
(e.g. see
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Platnick NI" box="[733,893,413,439]" pageId="81" pageNumber="82" pagination="102 - 106" refId="ref71834" refString="Platnick NI (1993) The araneomorph spider fauna of New Caledonia. Biodiversity Letters 1: 102 - 106." type="journal article" year="1993">Platnick 1993</bibRefCitation>
|
||
under “
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Forster" authorityYear="1959" box="[988,1078,414,439]" class="Arachnida" family="Micropholcommatidae" genus="Parapua" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="81" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[988,1078,414,439]" italics="true" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">Parapua</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
”), and the genus has clearly radiated in
|
||
<collectingCountry box="[575,756,448,475]" name="New Caledonia" pageId="81" pageNumber="82">New Caledonia</collectingCountry>
|
||
, with at least five undescribed species represented in museum collections (M. Rix, unpubl. data).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
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||
</document> |