Misionella

Misionella is a genus of South American crevice weavers that was first described by M. J. Ramírez & C. J. Grismado in 1997.[2] In 2005 a spider fossil found in 15- to 20-million-year-old Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic was described as Misionella didicostae.[3] A second specimen was discussed soon thereafter.[4]

Misionella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Filistatidae
Genus: Misionella
Ramírez & Grismado, 1997[1]
Type species
M. mendensis
Species

5, see text

Species

As of May 2019 it contains five species from Brazil and Argentina:[1]

  • Misionella aikewara Brescovit, Magalhaes & Cizauskas, 2016 – Brazil
  • Misionella carajas Brescovit, Magalhaes & Cizauskas, 2016 – Brazil
  • Misionella jaminawa Grismado & Ramírez, 2000 – Brazil
  • Misionella mendensis (Mello-Leitão, 1920) (type) – Brazil, Argentina
  • Misionella pallida Brescovit, Magalhaes & Cizauskas, 2016 – Brazil

References
  1. "Gen. Misionella Ramírez & Grismado, 1997". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  2. Ramírez, M. J.; Grismado, C. J. (1997). "A review of the spider family Filistatidae in Argentina (Arachnida, Araneae), with a cladistic reanalysis of filistatid genera". Entomologica Scandinavica. 28: 319–349.
  3. Penney, David (2005). "First fossil Filistatidae: a new species of Misionella in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology. 33 (1): 93–100. doi:10.1636/H03-38.
  4. Penney, David (2005). "Fossil blood droplets in Miocene Dominican amber yield clues to speed and direction of resin secretion". Palaeontology. 48 (5): 925–927. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2005.00491.x.


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