Medmassa
Sign in to saveMedmassa is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1887 under the name "Megaera", later renamed because "Megaera" was already in use as a synonym of the reptile genus Trimeresurus.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 10
- Family
- Corinnidae
- Collections
- MCZ, AM, ARC-PPRI
- Recorded in
- Equatorial Guinea, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Botswana
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- Parent taxon
- Corinnidae
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- taxon name
- Medmassa
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Medmassa
- taxon author citation
- Simon, 1887
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Medmassa is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1887 under the name "Megaera", later renamed because "Megaera" was already in use as a synonym of the reptile genus Trimeresurus.
==Species== it contains 13 species: Medmassa celebensis (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995) – Indonesia (Sulawesi) Medmassa christae Raven, 2015 – Australia (Queensland) Medmassa diplogale Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Borneo Medmassa frenata (Simon, 1877) (type) – Philippines Medmassa insignis (Thorell, 1890) – Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo) Medmassa kltina (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) – Philippines Medmassa lingshui Lu & Li, 2023 – China (Hainan) Medmassa postica Kadam, Tripathi & Sankaran, 2024 – India Medmassa pulchra (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea Medmassa sagax Tripathi, Kadam & Sankaran, 2024 – India Medmassa semiaurantiaca Simon, 1910 – Guinea-Bissau, Ghana, Central African Rep., Ethiopia, DR Congo, Kenya, Botswana, South Africa Medmassa tigris (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995) – Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo) Medmassa torta Jin, H. Zhang & F. Zhang, 2019 – China (Hainan)
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