Demelodos Mello-Leitão, 1943

Cruz, Estevam L., Silva, Da & Lise, Arno A., 2010, Synonyms and one new record in the spider family Trechaleidae (Araneae: Lycosoidea), Zootaxa 2723, pp. 66-68 : 66

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scientific name	Demelodos Mello-Leitão, 1943
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Demelodos Mello-Leitão, 1943: 164 . Type species: Demelodos iheringi Mello-Leitão 1943: 164 , immature female holotype from Rio Grande do Norte, Rudolf von Ihering (MNRJ, examined).

Note. The genus Demelodos was proposed by Mello-Leitão (1943), but in the original description, Mello-Leitão used two different spellings, the one above and Demolodos. Caporiacco (1948) presumed that the name is an anagram of Dolomedes Latreille, 1804 View in CoL , and the former spelling is assumed to be the correct one; the spelling Demolodes, used by Roewer (1955) and subsequent catalogues ( Brignoli 1983; Platnick 1989), is incorrect ( Platnick 1993). The holotype is labelled with the in schedula “ Demelodos dubius ” specific name ( Silva-Moreira et al., 2010). The genus was placed in the " Trechalea View in CoL genus-group" by Sierwald (1990).

The holotype of Demelodos iheringi , which is a small, immature female and the only known specimen, cannot be distinguished from other genera in Trechaleidae View in CoL , and is considered as insertae sedis.

References

Brignoli, P. M. (1983) A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 755 pp.

Caporiacco, L. di. (1948) Arachnida of British Guiana collected in 1931 and 1936 by Professors Beccari and Romiti. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 118, 607 - 747.

Mello-Leitao, C. (1943) Alguns pisauridas e tomisidas do Brasil. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 45, 164 - 172.

Platnick, N. I. (1989) Advances in Spider Taxonomy, 1981 - 1987. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 673 pp.

Platnick, N. I. (1993) Advances in Spider Taxonomy 1988 - 1991. With Synonymies and Transfers 1940 - 1980. The New York Entomological Society, New York. 846 pp.

Roewer, C. F. (1955 [imprint date 1954]) Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954 (Vol. 2 a). Institut Royal de Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1 - 923 pp.

Sierwald, P. (1990) Morphology and homologous features in the male palpal organ in Pisauridae and other spider families, with notes on the taxonomy of Pisauridae (Arachnida: Araneae). Nemouria (Occasional Papers of the Delaware Museum of Natural History), 35, 1 - 59.

Silva-Moreira, T., Baptista, R. L. C., Kury, A. B., Giupponi, A. P. L., Buckup, E. H. & Brescovit, A. D. (2010) Annotated check list of Arachnida type specimens deposited in the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. II - Araneae. Zootaxa, 2588, 1 - 91.