Floricomus fossilis Penney 2005 (money spider/sheet weaver)

Arachnida - Araneae - Linyphiidae

Full reference: D. Penney. 2005. First Caribbean Floricomus (Araneae: Linyphiidae), a new fossil species in Miocene Dominican Republic amber. A new synonymy for the extant North American fauna. Geologica Acta 3(1):59-64

Belongs to Floricomus according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013

See also Penney 2005

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: LL. 11629, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (Manchester Museum coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (Manchester Museum coll)

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