Biology:Tengella

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Tengella
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Zoropsidae
Genus: Tengella
Dahl, 1901[1]
Type species
T. perfuga
Dahl, 1901
Species

5, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Metafecenia F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902[2]

Tengella is a genus of false wolf spiders that was first described by Friedrich Dahl in 1901.[3] It is a senior synonym of Metafecenia.[2]

Species

(As of September 2019) it contains five species, found in Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Mexico:[1]

  • Tengella albolineata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902)[4] – Mexico
  • Tengella kalebi Candia-Ramírez & Valdez-Mondragón, 2014[5] – Mexico
  • Tengella perfuga Dahl, 1901[3] – Nicaragua
  • Tengella radiata (Kulczyński, 1909)[6] – Honduras to Panama
  • Tengella thaleri Platnick, 2009[7] – Mexico

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Tengella Dahl, 1901. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3236. Retrieved 2019-10-15. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 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. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Dahl, Friedrich (1901). "Nachtrag zur Uebersicht der Zoropsiden". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1901: 251–253. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8798659. 
  4. Pickard-Cambridge, Frederick O. (1902). "Metafecenia, gen. nov.". Araneida and Opiliones. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Arachnida. II. London. pp. 356–357. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/575928; Pl. 33, Figs. 16, 17. 
  5. Candia-Ramírez, Daniela T.; Valdez-Mondragón, Alejandro (2014). "A new troglobitic species of the spider genus Tengella Dahl (Araneae, Tengellidae) from Chiapas, Mexico". Zootaxa 3764 (3): 377–386. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3764.3.7. PMID 24870640. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262694909. 
  6. Kulczyński, Vl. (1909). "Fragmenta arachnologica, VII". Bulletin de l'Académie des Sciences de Cracovie. Classe des Sciences mathématiques et naturelles 1909: 447–450. http://www.museunacional.ufrj.br/mndi/Aracnologia/pdfliteratura/Kulczynski/Kulczynski%20%281909%29%20Fragmenta%20arachnologica%20VII.PDF; Pl. 22, Fig. 18. 
  7. Platnick, Norman I. (2009). "A review of the spider genus Tengella (Araneae: Tengellidae)". Contributions to Natural History 12: 1071–1090. http://www.nmbe.ch/sites/default/files/uploads/pubinv/platnick.pdf. 

Further reading

Wikidata ☰ Q432289 entry