Tengella

for the West Africa leader see Tenguella

Tengella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Chelicerata
Class:Arachnida
Order:Araneae
Infraorder:Araneomorphae
Family:Zoropsidae
Genus:Tengella
Dahl, 1901[1]
Type species
Tengella perfuga
Dahl, 1901
Synonyms[2]

Metafecenia Pickard-Cambridge, 1902[3]

Tengella is a genus of spiders in the Zoropsidae family. It was first described in 1901 by Friedrich Dahl. As of 2017, it contains five species from Mexico and Central America.[4]

Species

Tengella comprises the following species:

  • Tengella albolineata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902)[3] – Mexico
  • Tengella kalebi Candia-Ramírez & Valdez-Mondragón, 2014[5] – Mexico
  • Tengella perfuga Dahl, 1901[1] – Nicaragua
  • Tengella radiata (Kulczyński, 1909)[6] – Honduras to Panama
  • Tengella thaleri Platnick, 2009[7] – Mexico

References

  1. 1 2 Dahl, Friedrich (1901). "Nachtrag zur Uebersicht der Zoropsiden". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 1901: 251–253.
  2. ↑ Lehtinen, Pekka T. (1967). "Classification of the Cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4 (3): 248, 268. JSTOR 23731560.
  3. 1 2 Pickard-Cambridge, Frederick O. (1902). "Metafecenia, gen. nov.". Araneida and Opiliones. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Arachnida. II. London. pp. 356–357; Pl. 33, Figs. 16, 17.
  4. ↑ "Tengella". World Spider Catalog. 18.5. Natural History Museum Bern. 29 October 2015. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  5. ↑ Candia-Ramírez, Daniela T.; Valdez-Mondragón, Alejandro (2014). "A new troglobitic species of the spider genus Tengella Dahl (Araneae, Tengellidae) from Chiapas, Mexico" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3764 (3): 377–386. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3764.3.7.
  6. ↑ Kulczyński, Vl. (1909). "Fragmenta arachnologica, VII" (PDF). Bulletin de l'Académie des Sciences de Cracovie. Classe des Sciences mathématiques et naturelles. 1909: 447–450; Pl. 22, Fig. 18.
  7. ↑ Platnick, Norman I. (2009). "A review of the spider genus Tengella (Araneae: Tengellidae)" (PDF). Contributions to Natural History. 12: 1071–1090.

Further reading

  • Leister, Matthew; Mallis, Rachael; Miller, Kelly (2013). "The male of Tengella perfuga Dahl, 1901 with re-description of the female and comparisons with T. radiata (Kulczynski, 1909) (Araneae: Tengellidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3709 (2): 185–199. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3709.2.6.
  • Wolff, Robert J. (1977). "The Cribellate Genus Tengella (Araneae: Tengellidae?)" (PDF). The Journal of Arachnology. 5 (2): 139–144. JSTOR 3705158.
  • Polotow, Daniele; Carmichael, Anthea; Griswold, Charles E. (2015). "Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of Lycosoidea spiders (Araneae, Entelegynae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 29 (2): 124–163. doi:10.1071/IS14041.


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