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Artema atlanta Walckenaer 1837

Description

Artema atlanta Walckenaer, 1837

Artema atlanta Walckenaer, 1837: 656. F.O. Pickard-Cambridge 1902: 366, pl. 34, figs. 15–16. Petrunkevitch 1929: 119, figs. 102–104. Chrysanthus 1967: 92, figs. 15–19. Brignoli 1981: 92, figs. 1–7. Saaristo 2001: 15, figs. 16–22.

Artema mauriciana Walckenaer, 1837: 657. Millot 1946: 129, fig. 1. Synonymized by F.O. Pickard-Cambridge (1902).

Pholcus sisyphoides Doleschall, 1857: 408. Synonymized by F.O. Pickard-Cambridge (1902).

Artema convexa Blackwall, 1858: 332. Synonymized by Simon (1885).

Pholcus borbonicus Vinson, 1863: 132. Synonymized by Simon (1885).

Pholcus rotundatus Karsch, 1879: 106. Synonymized by Simon (1893b).

Crossopriza sexsignata Franganillo Balboa, 1926: 49. Synonymized by Pérez González (1996).

Coroia magna González-Sponga, 2005: 102, pl. 2, figs. 1–11; new synonymy.

Justification of synonymy. We have not re-examined the type specimens (from Falcón State, Venezuela) but González-Sponga’s drawings show all the distinctive characters of this species (armature of chelicerae; shape of palp and of bulbal processes; shape of epigynal sclerites). In addition, Artema is an Old World genus, and A. atlanta is the only species that has attained a pantropical distribution (including numerous New World records, e.g. Walckenaer 1837; Blackwall 1858; Karsch 1879; Petrunkevitch 1929; Brignoli 1981).

Notes

Published as part of Huber, Bernhard A., Colmenares, Pío A. & Ramirez, Martin J., 2014, Fourteen new generic and ten new specific synonymies in Pholcidae (Araneae), and transfer of Mystes Bristowe to Filistatidae, pp. 413-422 in Zootaxa 3847 (3) on page 417, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3847.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/231498

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Walckenaer
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Pholcidae
Genus
Artema
Species
atlanta
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Artema atlanta Walckenaer, 1837 sec. Huber, Colmenares & Ramirez, 2014

References

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  • Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1902) Arachnida - Araneidea and Opiliones. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology, 2, 313 - 424.
  • Petrunkevitch, A. (1929) The spiders of Porto Rico. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 30, 1 - 158.
  • Chrysanthus, O. F. M. (1967) Spiders from South New Guinea IX. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 110 (5), 89 - 105.
  • Brignoli, P. M. (1981) Studies on the Pholcidae, I. Notes on the genera Artema and Physocyclus (Araneae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 170 (1), 90 - 100.
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