Mastophora bisaccata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Araneoidea

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: Araneomorphae Taxon: Neocribellatae Series: Entelegynae Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Araneidae
Subfamilia: Cyrtarachninae
Tribus: Mastophorini
Genus: Mastophora Holmberg
Species: Mastophora bisaccata

Name

Mastophora bisaccata (Emerton, 1884)

Type locality: beech tree. New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

Holotype: MCZ. female ♀.

Synonymy

• Cyrtarachne bisaccata Emerton, 1884: 325 (original combination)
• Cyrtarachne multilineata Atkinson, 1888: 546 (synonymized by Banks, 1910).
  • Type locality: near Chapel Hill, North Carolina
    • Types lost.
• Ordgarius obesus Banks, 1898: 250 (synonymized by Levi, 2003: 330)
  • Type locality: La Chuparosa [Chuparrosa, San Luis Potosi], Mexico.
    • Syntypes: CAS. destroyed.

References

Primary references

• Emerton, J.H. 1884. New England spiders of the family Epeiridae. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6: 295-342. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Atkinson, G.F. 1888a. New instances of protective resemblance in spiders. American Naturalist 22(258): 545-546. Reference page. 
• Banks, N. 1898. Arachnida from Baja California and other parts of Mexico. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (3)1: 205–308. Reference page. 
• Levi, H.W. 2003. The bolas spiders of the genus Mastophora (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 157(5): 309-382. Reference page.