Arachnida - Araneae - Synotaxidae
Synonyms: Theridiometa edwardsi Petrunkevitch 1942, Viocurus fossilis Petrunkevitch 1958
Full reference: A. Petrunkevitch. 1942. A study of amber spiders. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 34:119-464
Belongs to Acrometa according to J. Wunderlich 2022
See also Dunlop et al. 2013, Petrunkevitch 1942, Petrunkevitch 1946, Petrunkevitch 1950, Petrunkevitch 1958, Wunderlich 1986 and Wunderlich 2004
Sister taxa: Acrometa clava, Acrometa eichmanni, Acrometa gibbosa, Acrometa glomus, Acrometa incidens, Acrometa longisetae, Acrometa minutum, Acrometa pala, Acrometa pseudorobusta, Acrometa robusta, Acrometa samlandica, Acrometa setosus, Acrometa succini
Type specimens:
- Acrometa cristata: Its type locality is Baltic amber (BMNH coll), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation
- Theridiometa edwardsi: Its type locality is Baltic amber (BMNH coll), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
- Viocurus fossilis: Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Zoological Museum, Humboldt Univ Berlin (ZHMB MfN) Collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (6 collections)
Total: 6 collections including 8 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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