Diplura nigra

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Dipluroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Mygalomorphae Superfamilia: Dipluroidea

Familia: Dipluridae
Subfamilia: Diplurinae
Genus: Diplura
Species: Diplura nigra

Name

Diplura nigra (Pickard-Cambridge, 1896)

Type locality: Brazil, lower Amazonas, Pará, Santarém.

Lectotype: BMNH. female ♀. II.1896. legit F. O. Pickard-Cambridge. BM1896.12.13.49 (lectotype Melodeus niger designated by Brescovit et al., 2021.

Synonymy

• Melodeus niger Pickard-Cambridge, 1896: 759 (original combination)
• Thalerothele nigra (F.O. Pickard-Cambridge): Petrunkevitch, 1911: 91
• Diplura nigra (F.O. Pickard-Cambridge): Brescovit, Sherwood & Lucas, 2021: 684

References

Primary references

• Pickard-Cambridge, F.O. 1896. On the Theraphosidae of the lower Amazons: being an account of the new genera and species of this group of spiders discovered during the expedition of the steamship ‘Faraday’ up the river Amazons. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 64(3): 716–766. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Drolshagen, B. & Bäckstam, C.M. 2021. A taxonomic review of the mygalomorph spider genus Linothele Karsch, 1879 (Araneae, Dipluridae). Zoosystema 43(10): 163-196. DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a10. . Reference page.