Medmassa

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
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
Sectio: Dionycha
Superfamilia: Corinnoidea

Familia: Corinnidae
Subfamilia: Castianeirinae
Genus: Medmassa
Species: M. celebensis – M. christae – M. diplogale – M. frenata – M. insignis – M. kitina – M. kltina – M. lingshui – M. pulchra – M. semiaurantiaca – M. tigris – M. torta
Name

Medmassa Simon, 1887

Type species: Megaera frenata Eugène Simon, 1877, by original designation.
Synonymy

Megaera (Simon) Simon, 1877 (preoccupied by Megaera Wagler, 1830 Reptilia)
Medmassa Eugène Simon, 1887 (replacement name for Megaera Simon, 1877)
Astratea Thorell, 1890 (synonymized by Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001: 345)
Type species:

References

2010: Zootaxa, 2361: 1–12.
Jin, C., Zhang, H.L. & Zhang, F. 2019. First records of the corinnid genera Allomedmassa Dankittipakul & Singtripop, 2014 and Medmassa Simon, 1887 from China, with the description of a new genus (Araneae: Corinnidae). Zootaxa 4585(3): 459–477. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4585.3.3. Reference page.
Raven, R.J. 2015: A revision of ant-mimicking spiders of the family Corinnidae (Araneae) in the Western Pacific. Zootaxa 3958(1): 1–258. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3958.1.1. Preview (PDF) ISBN 978-1-77557-693-8 (paperback); ISBN 978-1-77557-694-5 (Online edition) Reference page.

Medmassa is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1887 under the name "Megaera",[3] later renamed because "Megaera" was already in use as a synonym of the reptile genus Trimeresurus.[4]
Species

As of April 2019 it contains ten species:[1]

Medmassa celebensis (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995) – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
Medmassa christae Raven, 2015 – Australia (Queensland)
Medmassa diplogale Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Borneo
Medmassa frenata (Simon, 1877) (type) – Philippines
Medmassa insignis (Thorell, 1890) – Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)
Medmassa kltina (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) – Philippines
Medmassa pulchra (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
Medmassa semiaurantiaca Simon, 1910 – Africa
Medmassa tigris (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995) – Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)
Medmassa torta Jin, H. Zhang & F. Zhang, 2019 – China (Hainan)

References

"Gen. Medmassa Simon, 1887". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
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]). p. 345.
Simon, E. (1887). "Observation sur divers arachnides: synonymies et descriptions". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 7 (6): 193–195.
Simon, E (1898). Histoire naturelle des araignées. p. 198. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.