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Laetesia Simon 1908

Description

Laetesia Simon, 1908

Type species: Laetesia mollita Simon, 1908 (as per designation by Petrunkevitch, 1928)

Composition. 26 species, including the new species described here. Laetesia includes eight species from Australia, 15 from New Zealand, one species in Auckland Island, one species in Vanuatu (New Hebrides) and one species from Thailand.

Notes

Published as part of Hormiga, Gustavo & Scharff, Nikolaj, 2014, The strange case of Laetesia raveni n. sp., a green linyphiid spider from Eastern Australia with a preference for thorny plants (Araneae, Linyphiidae), pp. 83-94 in Zootaxa 3811 (1) on page 84, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3811.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/286204

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Linyphiidae
Genus
Laetesia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Araneae
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Simon
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Laetesia Simon, 1908 sec. Hormiga & Scharff, 2014

References

  • Simon, E. (1908) Araneae. 1 re partie. In: Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (Eds.), Die Fauna Sudwest-Australiens, 1 (12). Verlag von Gustav Fischer, Jena, pp. 359 - 446.
  • Petrunkevitch, A. (1928) Systema Aranearum. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 29, 1 - 270.