Metagonia yucatana

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pholcoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Araneomorphae Series: Haplogynae Superfamilia: Pholcoidea

Familia: Pholcidae
Subfamilia: Pholcinae
Genus: Metagonia
Species: Metagonia yucatana

Name

Metagonia yucatana Chamberlin & Ivie, 1938: 132

Type locality: Loltun Cave near Nakab Mouth, Oxkutzcab, Yucatan, Mexico.

Holotype: AMNH. male ♂. legit A.S. Pearse.

Synonymy

• Metagonia viabilis Chamberlin & Ivie, 1938: 133
  • Type locality: Ziz Cave, Oxkutzcab, Yucatan, Mexico.
    • Holotype: AMNH. female ♀. legit A.S. Pearse

References

Primary references

• Chamberlin, R.V. & Ivie, W. 1938. Araneida from Yucatan. In: Pearse, A.S. (ed.) Fauna of the caves of Yucatan. Publications, Carnegie Institution of Washington 491: 123–136. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Gertsch, W.J. 1986. The spider genus Metagonia (Araneae: Pholcidae) in North America, Central America and the West Indies. Texas Memorial Museum, speleological monographs 1: 39-62. Reference page.