Tetragnatha gracilis

Taxonavigation

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Taxonavigation: Araneoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Tetragnathidae
Subfamilia: Tetragnathinae
Genus: Tetragnatha
Species: Tetragnatha gracilis

Name

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Tetragnatha gracilis (Bryant, 1923)

Type locality: Antigua and Barbuda, Antigua

Syntypes ♂♀: MCZ 21481 (VI.1918; University of Iowa Expedition)

Synonyms

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  • Prionolaema gracilis Bryant, 1923
  • Tetragnatha earmra Levi, 1981: 294. (synonymized by Dimitrov, Álvarez-Padilla & Hormiga, 2008: 55).
    • Type locality: Eannra South East Island, Everglades National Park, Florida, USA
      • Holotype: MCZ. male ♂. 28.I.1973. legit A. Sheldon.
  • Tetragnatha gracilis — Dimitrov, Álvarez-Padilla & Hormiga, 2008

References

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  • Bryant, E. B. 1923. Report on the spiders collected by the Barbados-Antigua Expedition from the University of Iowa in 1918. University of Iowa Studies in Natural History 10(3): 10–16. [11, pl. 1, f. 3]
  • Levi, H.W. 1981. The American orb-weaver genera Dolichognatha and Tetragnatha north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae, Tetragnathinae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 149: 271-318. Reference page
  • Dimitrov, D., F. Álvarez-Padilla & G. Hormiga. 2008. Until dirt do us apart: On the unremarkable palp morphology of the spider Sternospina concretipalpis Schmidt & Krause, 1993, with comments on the genus Prionolaema Simon, 1894 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Zootaxa 1698: 49–56. PDF [55, f. 3A-G, 4A-C]