Beierowithius sieboldtii (Menge, 1854)

† Beierowithius sieboldtii (Menge, 1854)

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Species, fossil

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Baltic amber

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Obisium sieboldtii Menge, in C.L. Koch and Berendt, 1854: 97; Scudder, 1891: 276 Obisium siebodii [sic]).

Chelifer sieboldtii (Menge): Menge, 1855: 35-36, plate 5 fig. 10 (Chelifer sieboldii [sic]); Hagen, 1870: 267; Scudder, 1891: 255 (as Chelifer sieboldii [sic]); Beier, 1932e: 278.

Oligowithius sieboldtii (Menge): Beier, 1937d: 309, fig. 11; Roewer, 1940: 331; Beier, 1955g: 53 (as Oligowithius sieboldii [sic]); Schawaller, 1979: 4 (as Oligowithius sieboldii [sic]).

Beierowithius sieboldtii (Menge): Mahnert, 1979d: 802 (as Beierowithius sieboldii [sic]); Harvey, 1991a: 641.

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