Genus Opopaea Simon, 1891

Museums

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• Opopaea Simon, E. 1891. On the spiders of the island of St. Vincent. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1891: 549-575 [560].

  Type species:

   Opopaea deserticola Simon, 1891 by monotypy.
• Epectris Simon, O.L. 1893. Voyage de M. E. Simon aux les Philippines. Arachnides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France lxii: 65-80 [74].

  Type species:

   Epectris apicalis Simon, 1893 by monotypy.
• Myrmecoscaphiella Mello-Leitão, C.F. de 1926. Algumas aranhas do Brasil meridional. Boletim do Museu Nacional de Rio de Janeiro 2: 1-18 [1].

  Type species:

   Myrmecoscaphiella borgmeyeri Mello-Leitão, 1926 by original designation.
• Nale Saaristo & Marusik, 2008.

  Type species:

   Opopaea lena Suman, 1965 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Platnick, N.I. & Dupérré, N. 2009. The goblin spider genera Opopaea and Epectris (Araneae, Oonopidae) in the New World. American Museum Novitates 3649: 1-43 [3, 29] (for Myrmecoscaphiella Mello-Leitão, 1926 and Nale Saaristo & Marusik, 2008)
• Baehr, B.C., Harvey, M.S., Smith, H.M. & Ott, R. 2013. The goblin spider genus Opopaea in Australia and the Pacific islands (Araneae: Oonopidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 58: 107-338 [9] (for Epectris Simon, 1893)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD) ; NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NT: Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU) ; SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW) ; WA: Northern Kimberley (NK), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Coral Sea Islands Territory, Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

General References

Baehr, B.C. 2011. Australian goblin spiders of the genus Opopaea Simon, part 1. The species of the IBISCA-Queensland Project at Lamington National Park (Araneae: Oonopidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Nature 55(2): 413-437

Baehr, B.C., Harvey, M.S., Smith, H.M. & Ott, R. 2013. The goblin spider genus Opopaea in Australia and the Pacific islands (Araneae: Oonopidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 58: 107-338

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