Orchestina truncata Wunderlich 2004 (goblin spider)

Arachnida - Araneae - Oonopidae

Full reference: J. Wunderlich. 2004. Two new fossil spider species in Copal from Colombia (Araneae: Oonopidae and Dictynidae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 3:1854-1859

Belongs to Orchestina according to Y. M. Marusik and J. Wunderlich 2008

See also Wunderlich 2004

Sister taxa: Orchestina (Baltorchestina), Orchestina (Gallorchestina), Orchestina baltica, Orchestina breviembolus, Orchestina colombiensis, Orchestina crassiembolus, Orchestina dominicana, Orchestina forceps, Orchestina fushunensis, Orchestina gappi, Orchestina gracilitibialis, Orchestina kenyana, Orchestina longimana, Orchestina madagascariensis, Orchestina mortua, Orchestina pusilla, Orchestina qiu, Orchestina rabagensis, Orchestina sakhalinensis, Orchestina tibialis, Orchestina tuberosa

Type specimen: F1113/CC/AR/OON/CJW, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Colombian copal (Wunderlich coll), which is in a Holocene terrestrial amber in Colombia.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Colombian copal (Wunderlich coll)

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