Mysmena
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Ordo: Araneae
Familia: Mysmenidae
Name
Mysmena Simon, 1894 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Mysmena Simon 1894[1]: 558. Type species by original description Theridion leucoplagiataum Simon, 1879: 258 (= Mysmena leucoplagiata (Simon, 1879)).
Composition
According to World Spider Catalog (2015)[2], 27 described species, plus Mysmena lulanga sp. n. described here from Nyingchi Prefecture, Tibet, China.
Distribution
Spain, Southern Europe to Azerbaijan, Saint Helena, Japan, Southwest China, Taiwan, Hainan Island, Vietnam, Oceania, islands of South Pacific, Guyana, Trinidad and Canada.
Comments
The genus Mysmena was erected by Simon in 1894 initially as a genus of Theridiiae with the type species Theridion leycoplagiatum Simon, 1879; later transferred to Symphytognathidae by Forster (1959)[3], and then to Mysmenidae from Symphytognathidae by Forster and Platnick (1977)[4]. In recent years, research on species description reports of this genus mainly comes from China (Miller et al. 2009[5]; Lin and Li 2008[6], 2013a[7], 2013b[8]), Japan (Ono 2010[9]), Queensland (Lopardo and Michalik 2013[10]) and Canada (Lopardo et al. 2008[11]). Lopardo and Hormiga (2015)[12] suggested that Calodipoena, Itapua, Calomyspoena, Tamasesia, and Kekenboschiella are synonymized with Mysmena basing on the results of phylogeny and evolutionary of the family Mysmenidae. Several optimized synapomrophies shared by most of this genus were proposed, include the spermatic duct switchback distally benting at a right angle, the presence of a long ventral scape, the weakly sclerotized fertilization ducts and the vulva with a distinguishable wall (Lopardo and Hormiga 2015[12]).
Taxon Treatment
- Lin, Y; Li, S; 2016: Mysmenidae, a spider family newly recorded from Tibet (Arachnida, Araneae) ZooKeys, (549): 51-69. doi
Other References
- ↑ Simon E (1894) Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris 1: 489–760.
- ↑ World Spider Catalog (2015) World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. http://wsc.nmbe.ch [version 16.5, accessed on Sptember 25, 2015]
- ↑ Forster R (1959) The spiders of the family Symphytognathidae. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 86: 269–329.
- ↑ Forster R, Platnick N (1977) A review of the spider family Symphytognathidae (Arachnida, Araneae). American Museum Novitates 2619: 1–29.
- ↑ Miller J, Griswold C, Yin C (2009) The symphytognathoid spiders of the Gaoligongshan, Yunnan, China (Araneae, Araneoidea): Systematics and diversity of micro-orbweavers. ZooKeys 11: 9–195. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.11.160
- ↑ Lin Y, Li S (2008) Mysmenid spiders of China (Araneae: Mysmenidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 58: 487–520. doi: 10.3161/000345408X364337
- ↑ Lin Y, Li S (2013a) Five new minute orb-weaving spiders of the family Mysmenidae from China (Araneae). Zootaxa 3670: 449–481. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3670.4.3
- ↑ Lin Y, Li S (2013b) Two new species of the genera Mysmena and Trogloneta (Mysmenidae, Araneae) from southwestern China. ZooKeys 303: 33–51. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.303.4808
- ↑ Ono H (2010) Two new spiders of the family Anapidae and Clubionidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from Japan. Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (A) 36: 1–6.
- ↑ Lopardo L, Michalik P (2013) First description of a mysmenid spider species from mainland Australia and new data for Mysmena tasmaniae Hickman, 1979 (Araneae, Mysmenidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum-Nature 58: 381–396.
- ↑ Lopardo L, Dupérré N, Paquin P (2008) Expanding horizons...the first report of the genus Mysmena (Araneae, Mysmenidae) from continental North America, with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 1718: 36–44.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Lopardo L, Hormiga G (2015) Out of the twilight zone: phylogeny and evolutionary morphology of the orb‐weaving spider family Mysmenidae, with a focus on spinneret spigot morphology in symphytognathoids (Araneae, Araneoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 173(3): 527–786. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12199
