Megalostrata (spider)

Megalostrata is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1880.[2]

Megalostrata
Temporal range: Neogene–present
Megalostrata sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Corinnidae
Genus: Megalostrata
Karsch, 1880[1]
Type species
M. raptor
(L. Koch, 1866)
Species

4, see text

Species

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

  • Megalostrata bruneri (Bryant, 1936) – Cuba
  • Megalostrata depicta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895) – Mexico
  • Megalostrata monistica (Chamberlin, 1924) – Mexico
  • Megalostrata raptor (L. Koch, 1866) (type) – Mexico to Panama

References
  1. "Gen. Megalostrata Karsch, 1880". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
  2. Karsch, F. (1880). "Arachnologische Blätter (Decas I)". Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften, Dritte Folge. 5: 373–409.


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