Archaea copalensis Lourenço, 2000
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Now considered a synonym of A. gracilicollis (Wunderlich, 2004; Dunlop et al., 2023).
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym of A. gracilicollis) (Wunderlich, 2004; Dunlop et al., 2023)
Last record: subfossil (copal) (Lourenço, 2000)
Distribution
Madagascar
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Lourenço, Wilson R. (2000). Premier cas d’un sub-fossile d’araingée appartenant au genre Archaea Koch & Berendt (Archaeidae) dans le copal de Madagascar. Comptes Rendus. Académie des Sciences, Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 330: 509-512. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1251-8050(00)00018-5
Other references:
Dunlop, Jason A., Penney, David and Jekel, Denise. (2023). A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives. In: World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch, version 23.5, accessed on 28 Febrtuary 2025.
Wunderlich, J. (2004). Fossil spiders in amber and copal. Conclusions, revisions, new taxa and family diagnoses of fossil and extant taxa. Beiträge zur Araneologie 3AB: 1-1908.