Species Olios morbillosus (MacLeay, 1827) (nomen dubium)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thomisus morbillosus Macleay, W.S. 1827. Annulosa. Catalogue of insects collected by Captain King, R.N. pp. 438-469 in King, P.P. (ed.). Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed Between the Years 1818 and 1822 with an appendix containing various subjects relating to hydrography and natural history. London : John Murray Vol. 2 Appendix B 637 pp. [15 April 1826] [469].

  Type data:

   Holotype MMUS Numbers not provided (Specimen is listed as lost as per the World Spider Catalog), Australia.

Generic Combinations

• Olios morbillosus (MacLeay, 1827). —
  Walckenaer, C. A. 1841. Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Paris Part 2 pp. 1-549.

Introduction

Jäger (2020) notes that the description provided by MacLeay (1827) is far from satisfactory, and noted that the remark was also provided by Walckenaer (1841) in a re-description of the species - there is also uncertainty about which material Walckenaer used in the re-description. Jäger (2020) notes that the type material is currently lost and thus can only consider the species as nomen dubium.

Distribution

Recorded from "Australia".

General References

Jäger, P. 2020. The spider genus Olios Walckenaer, 1837 (Araneae: Sparassidae) – Part 1: species groups, diagnoses, identification keys, distribution maps and revision of the argelasius-, coenobitus- and auricomis-groups. Zootaxa 4866(1): 001–119

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