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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Mysmenidae
Genus: Mysmena
Species: M. acuminata – M. arcilonga – M. awari – M. baoxingensis – M. biangulata – M. bizi – M. calypso – M. caribbaea – M. changouzi – M. colima – M. conica – M. cornigera – M. dumoga – M. furca – M. gibbosa – M. goudao – M. guianensis – M. haban – M. incredula – M. isolata – M. jinlong – M. leichhardti – M. leucoplagiata – M. lulanga – M. maculosa – M. marijkeae – M. marplesi – M. mooatae – M. nubiai – M. phyllicola – M. quebecana – M. rostella – M. rotunda – M. santacruzi – M. shibali – M. spirala – M. stathamae – M. taiwanica – M. tamdaoensis – M. tarautensis – M. tasmaniae – M. tembei – M. vangoethemi – M. vitiensis – M. wawuensis – M. woodwardi – M. zhengi
Name

Mysmena Simon, 1894

Type species: Theridion leycoplagiatum Eugène Simon, 1879
Synonymy

Calodipoena Gertsch & Davis, 1936: 8 (synonymized by Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015: 784)
Type species: Calodipoena incredula Willis John Gertsc & Louie Irby Davis
Calomyspoena Baert & Maelfait, 1983 (synonymized by Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015: 784)
Itapua Baert, 1984 (synonymized by Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015: 784)
Kekenboschiella Baert, 1982 (synonymized by Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015: 785)
Tamasesia Marples, 1955 (synonymized by Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015: 785)

Mysmena wawuensis female paratype

Mysmena wawuensis female

References
Synonymy

Simon, E. 1894. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris, 1: 489–760. [588]

Additional references

Gertsch, W.J. & Davis, L.I. 1936: New spiders from Texas. American Museum Novitates 881: 1-21. full article (PDF). Reference page.
Levi, H. W. 1956. The spider genus Mysmena in the Americas (Araneae, Theridiidae). American Museum Novitates 1801: 1–13. PDF
Lin, Y.C & Li, S.Q 2008: Mysmenid spiders of China (Araneae: Mysmenidae). Annales Zoologici 58: 487-520. Reference page.
Lin, Y-C. & Li, S-Q. 2016. Mysmenidae, a spider family newly recorded from Tibet (Arachnida, Araneae). ZooKeys 549: 51–69. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.549.6046 Reference page.
Lopardo & Hormiga, G. 2015. Out of the twilight zone: phylogeny and evolutionary morphology of the orb-weaving spider family Mysmenidae, with a focus on spinneret spigot morphology in symphytognathoids (Araneae, Araneoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 173(3): 527-786. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12199. Reference page.
Miller, J.; Griswold, C.; Yin, C.M. 2009: The symphytognathoid spiders of the Gaoligongshan, Yunnan, China (Araneae: Araneoidea): systematics and diversity of micro-orbweavers. ZooKeys, 11: 9–195. Abstract PDF

Links

Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]


Mysmena is a genus of spiders in the family Mysmenidae, found in many parts of the world.[1]
Species

As of April 2016, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]

Mysmena acuminata (Marples, 1955) – Samoa
Mysmena arcilonga Lin & Li, 2008 – China
Mysmena awari (Baert, 1984) – New Guinea
Mysmena baoxingensis Lin & Li, 2013 – China
Mysmena biangulata (Lin & Li, 2008) – China
Mysmena bizi Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 – China
Mysmena calypso Gertsch, 1960 – Trinidad
Mysmena caribbaea (Gertsch, 1960) – Jamaica, Trinidad
Mysmena changouzi Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 – China
Mysmena colima (Gertsch, 1960) – Mexico
Mysmena conica (Simon, 1895) – Algeria
Mysmena cornigera (Lin & Li, 2008) – China
Mysmena dumoga (Baert, 1988) – Sulawesi
Mysmena furca Lin & Li, 2008 – China
Mysmena gibbosa Snazell, 1986 – Spain
Mysmena goudao Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 – China
Mysmena guianensis Levi, 1956 – Guyana
Mysmena haban Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 – China
Mysmena incredula (Gertsch & Davis, 1936) – USA, Bahama Is., Cuba, Panama
Mysmena isolata Forster, 1977 – St. Helena
Mysmena jinlong Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 – China
Mysmena leichhardti Lopardo & Michalik, 2013 – Queensland
Mysmena leucoplagiata (Simon, 1879) (type species) – Southern Europe to Azerbaijan, Israel
Mysmena lulanga Lin & Li, 2016 – China
Mysmena maculosa Lin & Li, 2014 – Vietnam
Mysmena marijkeae (Baert, 1982) – New Guinea
Mysmena marplesi (Brignoli, 1980) – New Caledonia
Mysmena mooatae (Baert, 1988) – Sulawesi
Mysmena nojimai Ono, 2010 – Japan
Mysmena nubiai (Baert, 1984) – New Guinea
Mysmena phyllicola (Marples, 1955) – Samoa, Niue
Mysmena quebecana Lopardo & Dupérré, 2008 – Canada
Mysmena rostella Lin & Li, 2008 – China
Mysmena rotunda (Marples, 1955) – Samoa
Mysmena santacruzi (Baert & Maelfait, 1983) – Galapagos Is.
Mysmena shibali Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 – China
Mysmena spirala Lin & Li, 2008 – China
Mysmena stathamae (Gertsch, 1960) – Mexico, Panama, Jamaica
Mysmena taiwanica Ono, 2007 – Taiwan
Mysmena tamdaoensis (Lin & Li, 2014) – Vietnam
Mysmena tarautensis (Baert, 1988) – Sulawesi
Mysmena tasmaniae Hickman, 1979 – Tasmania
Mysmena tembei (Baert, 1984) – Paraguay
Mysmena vangoethemi (Baert, 1982) – New Guinea
Mysmena vitiensis Forster, 1959 – Fiji
Mysmena wawuensis Lin & Li, 2013 – China
Mysmena woodwardi Forster, 1959 – New Guinea
Mysmena zhengi Lin & Li, 2008 – China

References

"Gen. Mysmena Simon, 1894", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2016-04-13

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