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- Title
A REVISION OF THE FOSSIL PIRATE SPIDERS (ARACHNIDA: ARANEAE: MIMETIDAE).
- Authors
HARMS, DANILO; DUNLOP, JASON A.
- Abstract
Fossil pirate spiders (Araneae: Mimetidae) are revised. The extinct genera Succinero Wunderlich, 2004 a and Palaeoero Wunderlich, 2004 a are interpreted as synonyms of the extant genus Ero C. L. Koch, 1836. We recognize here the following fossil species as valid: E. carboneana Petrunkevitch, 1942, E. longitarsus (Wunderlich, 2004 a) comb. nov. and E. permunda Petrunkevitch, 1942, all from Baltic amber (Paleogene: Eocene), and E. rovnoensis (Wunderlich, 2004 b) comb. nov. from Rovno (Ukranian) amber (Paleogene: Eocene). Mimetus bituberculatus Wunderlich, 1988 from Dominican Republic amber (Neogene: Miocene) can be assigned to a specifically American clade of Mimetus Hentz, 1932. Mimetus brevipes Wunderlich, 2004 a from Baltic amber is synonymized with M. longipes Wunderlich, 2004 a syn. nov. Of the other species (all Baltic amber), Ero aberrans Petrunkevitch, 1958 lacks taxonomically useful characters. Ero setulosa C. L. Koch and Berendt, 1854 is based on two non-conspecific, and non-mimetid, spiders. Mimetarchaea gintaras Eskov, 1992 is a subadult male mimetid. The putative oarcine ‘missing link’ Praeoarces exitus Wunderlich, 2004 a is a subadult female mimetine. All four are treated here as nomina dubia. Other fossil mimetid species in the literature are nomina nuda.
- Subjects
SPIDERS; ANIMAL species; FOSSILS; TAXONOMY; MIMETIDAE
- Publication
Palaeontology, 2009, Vol 52, Issue 4, p779
- ISSN
0031-0239
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1475-4983.2009.00890.x