Genus Medmassa Simon, 1887

Museums

Regional Maps

• Megaera Simon, E. 1877. Etudes arachnologiques. 5e Memoire. IX. Arachnides recueillis aux îles Phillipines par MM G.A. Baer et Laglais. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 7(5): 53-96 [87].

  Type species:

   Megaera frenata Simon, 1877 by original designation.
• Medmassa Simon, E. 1887. Observations sur divers Arachnides: synonymies et descriptions. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 6 7: 158-194 [publication dated 1887] [158] [replacement name; for Megaera Simon, 1877 preoccupied in the Reptilia, Diptera and Mammalia by Megaera Wagler, 1830].
• Astratea Thorell, T. 1890. Arachnidi di Pinang raccolti nel 1889 dai Signori L. Loria e L. Fea. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 30: 269–383 [364] [genus first synonymised by Simon (1898: 191), restored by Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995 and synonymised by Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001].

  Type species:

   Astratea insignis Thorell, 1890 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Deeleman-Reinhold, C.L. 2001. Forest Spiders of South East Asia: with a revision of the sac and ground spiders (Araneae: Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Liocranidae, Gnaphosidae, Prodidomidae and Trochanterriidae [sic]). Leiden : Brill 591 pp. [345]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

General References

Raven, R.J. 2015. A revision of ant-mimicking spiders of the family Corinnidae (Araneae) in the Western Pacific. Zootaxa 3958(1): 1-258 [28] (diagnosis)

History of changes