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Tengellidae Dahl 1908

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Family Tengellidae Dahl 1908

Tengellidae Dahl 1908: 194.

Diagnosis: Tengellids differ from ctenids in having a canoe-shaped tapetum and the eyes in two recurved rows but the ALE are not set high near the eyes of the posterior row. They differ from pisaurids in having a retrocoxal hymen and from lycosids in having a retrolateral tibial apophysis on the male palp.

Distribution: USA, Mexico, Madagascar, Central America, New Zealand, Australia.

Notes

Published as part of Raven, Robert J, 2012, Revisions of Australian ground-hunting spiders. V. A new lycosoid genus from eastern Australia (Araneae: Tengellidae), pp. 28-52 in Zootaxa 3305 on page 29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.280955

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Dahl
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Tengellidae
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Tengellidae Dahl, 1908 sec. Raven, 2012

References

  • Dahl, F. (1908) Die Lycosiden oder Wolfsspinnen Deutschlands und ihre Stellung im Haushalt der Natur. Nach statistichen Untersuchungen dargestellt. Nova Acta Academiae Caesaerae Leopoldina-Carolinae Germanicae naturae curiosorum, 88, 175 - 678.