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Mimetidae (pirate spider)

Arachnida - Araneae - Mimetidae

Taxonomy

Mimetidae was named by Simon (1881). It is extant. Its type is Mimetus.

It was assigned to Palpimanoidea by Dunlop et al. (2013); and to Araneoidea by Wheeler et al. (2017).

Subtaxa

Ero, Ero aberrans, Mimetarchaea, Mimetarchaea gintaras, Mimetus (type genus), Praeoarces, Praeoarces exitus, Protomimetus

Synonyms

Mimetarchaea was named by Eskov (1992).

It was considered a nomen dubium by Harms and Dunlop (2009) and Dunlop et al. (2013).
Mimetarchaea gintaras was named by Eskov (1992). Its type specimen is Ap 19566 and is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Palanga Amber Museum Collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Lithuania.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Harms and Dunlop (2009) and Dunlop et al. (2013).
Praeoarces was named by Wunderlich (2004). Its type is Praeoarces exitus.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Harms and Dunlop (2009) and Dunlop et al. (2013).
Praeoarces exitus was named by Wunderlich (2004). Its type specimen is F360/BB/AR/MIM/CJW and is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic amber (Wunderlich collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Praeoarces.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Harms and Dunlop (2009) and Dunlop et al. (2013).
Ero aberrans was named by Petrunkevitch (1958). It is an inclusion in amber. 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.

It was recombined as Succinero aberrans by Wunderlich (2004); it was considered a nomen dubium by Harms and Dunlop (2009).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1881	Mimetidae Simon
1958	Ero aberrans Petrunkevitch p. 265 figs. 368-375
1992	Mimetarchaea gintaras Eskov
1992	Mimetarchaea Eskov p. 319
1992	Mimetarchaea gintaras Eskov p. 320 figs. 6-9
2004	Succinero aberrans Wunderlich p. 1262 figs. 3-4a
2004	Praeoarces Wunderlich p. 1268
2004	Praeoarces exitus Wunderlich p. 1268 figs. 31-32
2013	Mimetidae Dunlop et al.
2017	Mimetidae Wheeler et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
—	Deuteropoda
subphylum	Chelicerata	Heymons 1901
—	Euchelicerata	Weygoldt and Paulus 1979
—	Prosomapoda
—	Planaterga
—	Dekatriata

Rank	Name	Author
—	Sclerophorata	Kamenz et al. 2011
class	Arachnida	Lamarck 1801
—	Pantetrapulmonata
subclass	Tetrapulmonata	Schultz 1990
—	Serikodiastida
order	Araneae
suborder	Opisthothelae	Pocock 1892
infraorder	Araneomorphae	Smith 1902
—	Entelegynae	Simon 1893
superfamily	Araneoidea	Simon 1895
family	Mimetidae	Simon 1881
family	Mimetidae	Simon 1881

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Fm. Mimetidae Simon 1881 [pirate spider]

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G. Ero Koch 1836

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Subg. †Ero (Palaeoero) Wunderlich 2004

†Ero (Palaeoero) longitarsus Wunderlich 2004

Subg. †Ero (Succinero) Wunderlich 2004

†Ero (Succinero) clunis Wunderlich 2012

†Ero (Succinero) gracilitibialis Wunderlich 2012

†Ero (Succinero) veta Wunderlich 2012

†Ero carboneana Petrunkevitch 1942

†Ero permunda Petrunkevitch 1942

†Ero rovnoensis Wunderlich 2004

†Ero sphaerica Koch and Berendt 1854

G. Mimetus Hentz 1832

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†Mimetus bituberculatus Wunderlich 1988

†Mimetus brevipes Wunderlich 2004

†Mimetus longipes Wunderlich 2004

G. †Protomimetus Wunderlich 2011

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†Protomimetus breviclypeus Wunderlich 2011

†Protomimetus longiclypeus Wunderlich 2011

Invalid names: Ero aberrans Petrunkevitch 1958 [nomen dubium], Mimetarchaea Eskov 1992 [nomen dubium], Mimetarchaea gintaras Eskov 1992 [nomen dubium], Praeoarces Wunderlich 2004 [nomen dubium], Praeoarces exitus Wunderlich 2004 [nomen dubium]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Grouping:

solitaryc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Created:

2017-04-17 09:55:58

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:55:58

Source: c = class

Reference: Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Priabonian to the top of the Langhian or 38.00000 to 13.82000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (12 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Poland	Mimetidae indet.1 (120813)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Ukraine	Succinero rovnoensis (113621)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Denmark	Mimetidae indet. 2, Ero permunda (123762)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Russian Federation (Kaliningrad)	Ero aberrans (123757) Ero permunda (124205) Ero permunda, Ero carboneana (123766) Ero sphaerica (123927) Mimetidae indet. 3, Mimetidae indet. 4, Ero sp., Succinero sp., Praeoarces exitus, Ero carboneana, Mimetus longipes, Protomimetus longiclypeus, Protomimetus breviclypeus, Ero longitarsus, Ero clunis, Ero gracilitibialis, Ero veta, Succinero carboneana, Succinero permunda (124318) Mimetus brevipes (110735) Palaeoero longitarsus (124201)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Lithuania	Mimetarchaea gintaras (123977)
Burdigalian - Langhian	20.44 - 13.82	Dominican Republic	Mimetus sp., Mimetus bituberculatus (146557)