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Issue: Vol. 1744 No. 1: 9 Apr. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-04-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1744.1.3
Page range: 31–40
Abstract views: 43
PDF downloaded: 28

Review of the Nearctic genus Scyletria Bishop & Crosby (Araneae, Linyphiidae), with a transfer of S. jona to Mermessus O. Pickard-Cambridge

Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
12 Chemin Saxby Sud, Shefford J2M 1S2 (Québec), Canada
Biodiversity, Research Branch, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa K1A 0C6 (Ontario), Canada
Araneae Cephalethus distribution Eperigone Erigoninae North America penny spider Savignia spider taxonomy

Abstract

The genus Scyletria Bishop & Crosby 1938 is reviewed and reduced to its type species, Scyletria inflata Bishop & Crosby 1938, by transfer of the only other species in the genus, Scyletria jona Bishop & Crosby 1938, to Mermessus O. Pickard-Cambridge 1899. The male of S. inflata is re-described, the female of M. jona (Bishop & Crosby 1938) new combination is described for the first time, and the male is re-described.

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