Biology:Masteria

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Masteria
Temporal range: Neogene–present
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Dipluridae
Genus: Masteria
L. Koch, 1873[1]
Type species
M. hirsuta
L. Koch, 1873
Species

39, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Accola Simon, 1889[2]
  • Antrochares Rainbow, 1898[2]
  • Microsteria Wunderlich, 1988[3]

Masteria is a genus of curtain web spiders that was first described by L. Koch in 1873.[4] They occur in the tropics of Central to South America, Asia and Micronesia, with one species found in Australia . M. petrunkevitchi males are 4 millimetres (0.16 in) long and females are 5 millimetres (0.20 in) long. M. lewisi, M. barona, and M. downeyi are slightly smaller and have only six eyes.[5][6]

Species

Eye Patterns
Eye pattern of M. barona
Eye pattern of M. downeyi
Eye pattern of M. lewisi
Eye pattern of M. petrunkevitchi
Eye pattern of M. simla

(As of September 2021) it contains 39 species:[1]

  • Masteria aguaruna Passanha & Brescovit, 2018 – Peru
  • Masteria aimeae (Alayón, 1995) – Cuba
  • Masteria amarumayu Passanha & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
  • Masteria angienae Víquez, 2020 — Costa Rica (Cocos Is.)
  • Masteria barona (Chickering, 1966) – Trinidad
  • Masteria caeca (Simon, 1892) – Philippines
  • Masteria cavicola (Simon, 1892) – Philippines
  • Masteria chalupas (Dupérré & Tapia, 2021) — Ecuador
  • Masteria colombiensis Raven, 1981 – Colombia
  • Masteria downeyi (Chickering, 1966) – Costa Rica, Panama
  • Masteria franzi Raven, 1991 – New Caledonia
  • Masteria galipote Passanha & Brescovit, 2018 – Dominican Rep.
  • Masteria golovatchi Alayón, 1995 – Cuba
  • Masteria guyanensis Almeida, Salvatierra & de Morais, 2018 – Guyana
  • Masteria hirsuta L. Koch, 1873 (type) – Fiji, Micronesia
  • Masteria jatunsacha (Dupérré & Tapia, 2021) — Ecuador
  • Masteria kaltenbachi Raven, 1991 – New Caledonia
  • Masteria lasdamas (Dupérré & Tapia, 2021) — Ecuador
  • Masteria lewisi (Chickering, 1964) – Jamaica
  • Masteria lucifuga (Simon, 1889) – Venezuela
  • Masteria macgregori (Rainbow, 1898) – New Guinea
  • Masteria machay (Dupérré & Tapia, 2021) — Ecuador
  • Masteria manauara Bertani, Cruz & Oliveira, 2013 – Brazil
  • Masteria modesta (Simon, 1892) – St. Vincent
  • Masteria mutum Passanha & Brescovit, 2018 – Brazil
  • Masteria otongachi (Dupérré & Tapia, 2021) — Ecuador
  • Masteria pallida (Kulczyński, 1908) – New Guinea
  • Masteria papallacta (Dupérré & Tapia, 2021) — Ecuador
  • Masteria pasochoa (Dupérré & Tapia, 2021) — Ecuador
  • Masteria pecki Gertsch, 1982 – Jamaica
  • Masteria petrunkevitchi (Chickering, 1964) – Puerto Rico
  • Masteria sabrinae Passanha & Brescovit, 2018 – Martinique
  • Masteria simla (Chickering, 1966) – Trinidad
  • Masteria soucouyant Passanha & Brescovit, 2018 – Trinidad and Tobago
  • Masteria spinosa (Petrunkevitch, 1925) – Panama
  • Masteria tayrona Passanha & Brescovit, 2018 – Colombia
  • Masteria toddae Raven, 1979 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Masteria urdujae Rasalan & Barrion-Dupo, 2019 – Philippines (Luzon)
  • Masteria yacambu Passanha & Brescovit, 2018 – Venezuela

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Masteria L. Koch, 1873. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/813. Retrieved 2019-06-01. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Raven, R. J. (1979). "Systematics of the mygalomorph spider genus Masteria (Masteriinae: Dipluridae: Arachnida)". Australian Journal of Zoology 27 (4): 624. doi:10.1071/zo9790623. 
  3. Raven, R. J. (2000). "Taxonomica Araneae I: Barychelidae, Theraphosidae, Nemesiidae and Dipluridae (Araneae)". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 45: 573. 
  4. Koch, L. (1873). Die Arachniden Australiens. 
  5. Chickering, A.M. (1964). "Two New Species of the Genus Accola (Araneae, Dipluridae)". Psyche 71 (4): 174–180. doi:10.1155/1964/37854. 
  6. Chickering, A.M. (1966). "Three New Species of Accola (Araneae, Dipluridae) from Costa Rica and Trinidad, W. I.". Psyche 73 (3): 157–164. doi:10.1155/1966/62743. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q98704 entry