Medmassa

Medmassa is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1887 under the name "Megaera",[3] later renamed because "Megaera" was already in use as a synonym of the reptile genus Trimeresurus.[4]

Medmassa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Corinnidae
Genus: Medmassa
Simon, 1887[1]
Type species
M. frenata
(Simon, 1877)
Species

10, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

As of April 2019 it contains ten species:[1]

  • 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 pulchra (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
  • Medmassa semiaurantiaca Simon, 1910 – Africa
  • Medmassa tigris (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995) – Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)
  • Medmassa torta Jin, H. Zhang & F. Zhang, 2019 – China (Hainan)

References
  1. "Gen. Medmassa Simon, 1887". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
  2. Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. (2001). Forest spiders of South East Asia: with a revision of the sac and ground spiders (Araneae: Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Liocranidae, Gnaphosidae, Prodidomidae and Trochanterriidae [sic]). p. 345.
  3. Simon, E. (1887). "Observation sur divers arachnides: synonymies et descriptions". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 7 (6): 193–195.
  4. Simon, E (1898). Histoire naturelle des araignées. p. 198. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.


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