Species Megalopsalis hoggi (Pocock, 1903)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Macropsalis hoggi Pocock, R.I. 1903. On some new harvest-spiders of the order Opiliones from the southern continents. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1902(2): 392-413 [398].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Macedon, Victoria, Australia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Forster, R.R. 1949. Australian Opiliones. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 16: 59-89 [61].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

General References

Forster, R.R. 1949. Australian Opiliones. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 16: 59-89 [61] (redescription and distribution)

Roewer, C.F. 1923. Die Webernechte der Erde. Jena : Gustav Fischer pp. 1-1116. [867] (redescription)

Taylor, C.K. 2011. Revision of the genus Megalopsalis (Arachnida: Opiliones: Phalangioidea) in Australia and New Zealand and implications for phalangioid classification. Zootaxa 2773: 1–65 [39] (redescribed)

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