†Mirometa valdespinosa Petrunkevitch 1963 (orb-weaving spider)
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Arachnida - Araneae - Araneidae
Full reference: A. Petrunkevitch. 1963. Chiapas amber spiders. University of California Publications in Entomology 31:1-40
Belongs to Mirometa according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013
See also Petrunkevitch 1963
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: UCMP 13036, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is UCMP B-7461, Pa-Buchil, Simojovel region, which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Mexico.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at UCMP B-7461, Pa-Buchil, Simojovel region
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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