Nops branicki Taczanowski 1874

• Main Authors: Sánchez-Ruiz, Alexander, Brescovit, Antonio D.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Araneae; Caponiidae; Nops; Nops branicki; Galapagos; Greenland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5996498; https://zenodo.org/record/5996498

Nops branicki (Taczanowski, 1874) Diops branickii Taczanowski, 1874: 73, pl. 2, fig. 2. Female holotype from Cayenne, French Guyana (no more data), (depository unknown; not examined). Hasselt, 1887: 85, pl. 6, figs 5–6. Petrunkevitch, 1911: 133. Roewer, 1942: 316. Nops branicki : Bonnet, 1956: 1475 (emendation of N. branickii ). Remarks . The holotype is apparently lost. The World Spider Catalog (2018) records male and female as known, but actually Taczanowski only described a unique female (see Taczanowski, 1874, p. 19). Hasselt (1887) also only made reference to the female described by Taczanowski, and argued that it could be an immature male (see Hasselt, 1887: p.77). He suggested to transfer it to the genus Nops by the number and position of the eyes. Hasselt also suggested the possibility that Diops branickii is synonymous with Nops variabilis : Même il me semble, que la Diops branickii Tacz. n ′est qu ′un individu bien jeune de la Nops variabilis Keys. (see Hasselt, 1887, p. 84). Petrunkevitch (1911) in his catalogue, apparently without examining the specimen involved, only accepted Hasselt´s first suggestion, and transferred Diops branickii to Nops. During this study no additional material was located. : Published as part of Sánchez-Ruiz, Alexander & Brescovit, Antonio D., 2018, A revision of the Neotropical spider genus Nops MacLeay (Araneae: Caponiidae) with the first phylogenetic hypothesis for the Nopinae genera, pp. 1-121 in Zootaxa 4427 (1) on page 112, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4427.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1271779 : {"references": ["Taczanowski, L. (1874) Les araneides de la Guyane francaise. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae, 10, 56 - 115.", "Hasselt, A. W. M. van (1887) Etudes sur le genre Nops. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 30, 67 - 86.", "Petrunkevitch, A. (1911) A synonymic index - catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 29, 1 - 791. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 23819", "Roewer, C. F. (1942) Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940. Bremen 1, 1040 pp.", "Bonnet, P. (1956) Bibliographia araneorum. Douladoure, Toulouse, 2 (2), 919 - 1926.", "World Spider Catalog (2018) World Spider Catalog, ver. 19.0. Natural History Museum Bern. Available from: http: // wsc. nmbe. ch (accessed 14 January 2018)"]}