Arachnida - Araneae - Theridiidae
Alternative combination: Municeps pulcher
Full reference: A. Petrunkevitch. 1942. A study of amber spiders. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 34:119-464
Belongs to Episinus according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013
See also Marusik and Penney 2004, Petrunkevitch 1942 and Petrunkevitch 1946
Sister taxa: Episinus anapidaeque, Episinus antecognatus, Episinus appendix, Episinus arrodens, Episinus balticus, Episinus brevipalpus, Episinus bulla, Episinus chiapasanus, Episinus clunis, Episinus cochlear, Episinus cornutus, Episinus cymbialis, Episinus dimidius, Episinus eskovi, Episinus isopteraque, Episinus latus, Episinus longimanus, Episinus longisoma, Episinus mordellidaeque, Episinus musculus, Episinus mutilus, Episinus nasuticymbium, Episinus neglectus, Episinus penneyi, Episinus praecognatus, Episinus tibiaseta, Episinus transversus, Episinus tuberosus, Municeps minutus, Mictodipoena stridula
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 the Russian Federation (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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