Melopoeus minax (Thorell, 1897)

Common name: Thailand Black

♀ Female described ♂ Male described

Female

Female

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Thorell, T. T. T. (1897). Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. LXXIII. Secondo saggio sui Ragni birmani. I. Parallelodontes. Tubitelariae. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova (2) 17[=37]: 161-267 [p. 182].

Distribution

MyanmarThailand

Type Locality: MYANMAR: Kaw-Kareet, Kayin State; holotype female in MCSNG

Taxonomic History

1897
Melopoeus minax Thorell, 1897
Recorded in Myanmar from Kayin State (Ono et al., 2026).
Returned to Melopoeus Pocock, 1895, which Smith, Daniel & Vignaud (2026) restore. With the type species of Cyriopagopus deemed a nomen dubium, the species it had absorbed had to go somewhere; the authors, following von Wirth's examination of the relevant types, reject Raven's (1985) view that Melopoeus is a synonym of Haplopelma and place these seven in Melopoeus rather than Haplopelma.

Bibliography (3)

Thorell, T. T. T. (1897). Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. LXXIII. Secondo saggio sui Ragni birmani. I. Parallelodontes. Tubitelariae. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova (2) 17[=37]: 161-267 [p. 182].

Ono, H., Suzuki, Y., Okumura, K. & Aung, M. M. (2026). Spider Fauna of Myanmar, with a Checklist of the Species Recorded from 1878 to 2025 (Arachnida, Araneae). Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Series A 52(1): 1-56.

Smith, A., Daniel, B. & Vignaud, B. (2026). Nomenclatural notes on the Ornithoctoninae genera Cyriopagopus Simon 1887, Haplopelma Simon 1892 and Melopoeus Pocock 1895 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) with the intention of restoring the genera Haplopelma and Melopoeus. Journal of the British Tarantula Society 40(3): 15-28.