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Composition and links. Belippo Leviea Levieina Agorioides Papuamyr. Read also: Taxonomic position of Myrmarachne and related genera Exemplary representatives of the group
SOURCE: Wesolowska & Haddad [2013]. All ©copyrights are retained by the original authors and copyright holders, used here by their courtesy. Introduction It takes proverbial "three glances" (now the Pragmatic Classification's logo) at palp structure (below) and at internal structure of correctly prepared epigyne to identify and correctly classify Belippo sp. specimens, while general appearance of a specimen separates if from Myrmarachne. But it took 50 years of floods of pompous words of descriptions (see facsimiles below) at " Literature views on taxonomy of Belippo" subchapter - below) and wild guesses on relationship,
from Roewer (1965: 78) through Edwards (in Edwards & Benjamin, 2009) to resolve that taxonomic problem. It was Wesołowska,
who in series of papers (2013, 2014, 2015 - coauthored with Haddad and Wiśniewski respectively) and using methods of drawing and preparation used by Prószyński and his collaborators since 1960, who finally documented internal structure of epigyne in Belippo permitting finally to classify that genus. Further progress was achieved by Maddison & Szűts, 2019 the three more genera, which they consider a new subtribe - Levieina. Gen. Belippo Simon, 1909 SOURCE: A - Wanless 1978a., Bull. brit. Mus. nat. Hist. (Zool.), 33, (1): 7-9, f. 4a,b, d, B-C, G-H - Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2014): 233, f. 8-10, 12-19, D - Wesołowska, W. & Haddad (2013): 186, f. 3, 15, 36-42, E - Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2011). 563, f. 35-39, Wesołowska, F - W. & Wiśniewski, K. (2015). 552, f. 22-23;462, f. 5-9, 73-74. All ©copyrights are retained by the original authors and copyright holders, used here by their courtesy. Gen. Leviea Maddison & Szűts, 2019 Comment. Maddison & Szűts, 2019 consider the three genera, listed below, as new subtribe Levieina, a sister to his subtribe Myrmarachnina. They may be right, of course, but I wish to call attention to similarity of internal structure of epigyne of Levieina (Fig. C, below) to that in Belippo, because of which I propose to place them rather into informal group of genera BELIPPINES. I include data from the Maddison & Szűts, 2019 paper below, although it was published beyond time limit for the present paper, because of exceptional value and beauty of the publication, and especially usage of spermathecae and duct as a very important diagnostic characters.
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Gen. Agorioides Maddison & Szűts, 2019
Gen. Papuamyr Maddison & Szűts, 2019
Literature views on taxonomy of Belippo
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