Genus of spiders
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[update] 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
^ a b c "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 .