A revision of the Neotropical spider genus Nops MacLeay (Araneae: Caponiidae) with the first phylogenetic hypothesis for the Nopinae genera
Author
Sánchez-Ruiz, Alexander
Author
Brescovit, Antonio D.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-06-01
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4427.1.1
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Nops branicki
(
Taczanowski, 1874
)
Diops branickii
Taczanowski, 1874
: 73
, pl. 2, fig. 2. Female holotype from Cayenne, French Guyana (no more data), (depository unknown; not examined).
Hasselt, 1887
: 85
, pl. 6, figs 5–6.
Petrunkevitch, 1911
: 133
.
Roewer, 1942
: 316
.
Nops branicki
:
Bonnet, 1956
: 1475
(emendation of
N. branickii
).
Remarks
. The
holotype
is apparently lost. The
World Spider Catalog (2018)
records male and female as known, but actually Taczanowski only described a unique female (see
Taczanowski, 1874
, p. 19).
Hasselt (1887)
also only made reference to the female described by Taczanowski, and argued that it could be an immature male (see
Hasselt, 1887
: p.77). He suggested to transfer it to the genus
Nops
by the number and position of the eyes. Hasselt also suggested the possibility that
Diops branickii
is synonymous with
Nops variabilis
:
Même
il me semble, que la
Diops branickii Tacz.
n ′est qu ′un individu bien jeune de la
Nops variabilis Keys.
(see
Hasselt, 1887
, p. 84).
Petrunkevitch (1911)
in his catalogue, apparently without examining the specimen involved, only accepted Hasselt´s first suggestion, and transferred
Diops branickii
to
Nops
.
During this study no additional material was located.