Published April 12, 2021 | Version v1
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Ariadna Audouin 1826

  • 1. Harry Butler Research Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia 6150, Australia. & Charles Darwin University, Darwin City, Northern Territory 0800, Australia. & South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia
  • 2. South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia
  • 3. Harry Butler Research Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia 6150, Australia. & Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Western Australia Museum, Locked Bag 49, Welshpool DC, Western Australia 6986, Australia. Centrum für Naturkunde (CeNak), Universität Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany. peter. hudson @ samuseum. sa. gov. au

Description

Genus Ariadna Audouin, 1826

Pylarus Hentz, 1842 (synonymised in Beatty 1970)

Macedonia Hogg, 1900 (synonymised in Rainbow 1911)

Segestriella Purcell, 1904 (synonymised in Beatty 1970).

Diagnosis and description. For a generic diagnosis and description of Ariadna refer to Giroti & Brescovit, 2018.

Composition. The genus Ariadna comprises 13 previously described species in Australia (Ariadna decatetracantha Main 1954; A. thyrianthina Simon 1908; A. kiwirrkurra Baehr & Whyte 2016; A. clavata Marsh et al. 2018; A. tan- gara Marsh et al. 2018; A. dysderina L. Koch 1873; A. octospinata (Lamb 1911); A. segmentata Simon 1893b, A. muscosa Hickman 1929; A. major Hickman 1929; A. burchelli (Hogg 1900); A. montana Rainbow 1920; A. natalis Pocock 1900 as well as A. phantasma sp. nov. described in this paper.

Distribution. Described species of Ariadna are known from all Australian states/territories except the Northern Territory.

Notes

Published as part of Marsh, Jessica R., Hudson, Peter & Framenau, Volker W., 2021, A ghost in the salt: A new species of halotolerant tube-web spider in the genus Ariadna (Araneae: Segestriidae), pp. 580-588 in Zootaxa 4952 (3) on pages 581-582, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4952.3.10, http://zenodo.org/record/4690497

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Audouin
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Segestriidae
Genus
Ariadna
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Ariadna Audouin, 1826 sec. Marsh, Hudson & Framenau, 2021

References

  • Audouin, V. (1826) Explication sommaire des planches d'arachnides de l'Egypte et de la Syrie. In: " Description de l'Egypte, ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont ete faites en Egypte pendant l'expedition de l'armee fran ҫaise, publie par les ordres de sa Majeste l'Empereur Napoleon le Grand. ". Histoire Naturelle, 1 (4), 1 - 339. [arachnids, pp. 99 - 186]
  • Hentz, N. M. (1842) Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History, 4, 54 - 57, 223 - 231. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 16996
  • Beatty, J. (1970) The spider genus Ariadna in the Americas (Araneae, Dysderidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 139, 433 - 518.
  • Hogg, H. R. (1900) A contribution to our knowledge of the spiders of Victoria: including some new species and genera. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, (New Series) 13, 68 - 123.
  • Rainbow, W. J. (1911) A census of Australian Araneidae. Records of the Australian Museum, 9, 107 - 319. https: // doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1975.9.1911.928
  • Purcell, W. F. (1904) Descriptions of new genera and species of South African spiders. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society, 15, 115 - 173. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 21560382.1904.9626437
  • Giroti, A. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2018) The taxonomy of the American Ariadna Audouin (Araneae: Synspermiata: Segestriidae). Zootaxa, 4400 (1), 1 - 114. [& Erratum: 4438: 600]. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4400.1.1
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  • Marsh, J. R., Baehr, B. C., Glatz, R. V. & Framenau, V. W. (2018) New species of tube web spiders of the genus Ariadna from South Australia (Araneae, Segestriidae). Evolutionary Systematics, 2, 137 - 149. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / evolsyst. 2.29172
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  • Simon, E. (1893 b) Etudes arachnologiques. 25 e Memoire. XL. Descriptions d'especes et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 62, 299 - 330.
  • Hickman, V. V. (1929) Studies in Tasmanian spiders. Part III. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1928, 96 - 118.
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