Eomysmena oculata Petrunkevitch 1942 (cobweb spider)

Arachnida - Araneae - Theridiidae

Alternative combination: Eodipoena oculata

Full reference: A. Petrunkevitch. 1942. A study of amber spiders. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 34:119-464

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

See also Marusik and Penney 2004, Petrunkevitch 1942, Petrunkevitch 1946, Petrunkevitch 1950, Petrunkevitch 1958 and Wunderlich 2008

Sister taxa: Eomysmena asta, Eomysmena aviceps, Eomysmena baltica, Eomysmena bassleri, Eomysmena calefacta, Eomysmena crassa, Eomysmena kaestneri, Eomysmena militaris, Eomysmena moritura, Eomysmena punctulata, Eomysmena recta, Eomysmena tenera, Eodipoena nielseni, Eodipoena regalis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Baltic amber (BMNH coll), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of Denmark (1 collection), the Russian Federation (3)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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