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]
| Medmassa | |
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| M. semiaurantiaca | |
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| M. semiaurantiaca | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Corinnidae |
| Genus: | Medmassa Simon, 1887[1] |
| Type species | |
| M. frenata (Simon, 1877) | |
| Species | |
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10, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Species
editAs of September 2025[update] it contains 13 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 lingshui Lu & Li, 2023 – China (Hainan)
- Medmassa postica Kadam, Tripathi & Sankaran, 2024 – India
- Medmassa pulchra (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
- Medmassa sagax Tripathi, Kadam & Sankaran, 2024 – India
- Medmassa semiaurantiaca Simon, 1910 – Guinea-Bissau, Ghana, Central African Rep., Ethiopia, DR Congo, Kenya, Botswana, South Africa
- Medmassa tigris (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995) – Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)
- Medmassa torta Jin, H. Zhang & F. Zhang, 2019 – China (Hainan)
References
edit- 1 2 3 "Gen. Medmassa Simon, 1887". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
- ↑ 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.
