Contributions to the taxonomy of the long-jawed orb-weaving spider genus Tetragnatha (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) in the Neotropical region, with comments on the morphology of the chelicerae
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Castanheira, Pedro de Souza
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Baptista, Renner Luiz Cerqueira
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Pizzetti, Daniela Dos Passos
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Teixeira, Renato Augusto
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Zoosystematics and Evolution
2019
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2
465
505
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.95.36762
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.95.36762
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Tetragnatha major Holmberg, 1876 and Tetragnatha riparia Holmberg, 1876
Remarks.
Tetragnatha major
and
T. riparia
were described by
Holmberg (1876)
, but the original descriptions are very short, without any suitable characters to correctly diagnose the species. There is a lack of illustrations and no type materials are specified because Holmberg did not collect the specimens he described. No specimens labeled as types of either species were found in MACN during our visit to that collection;
Galiano and Maury (1979)
had previously determined this. Despite the lack of information on these two species, both were subsequently reported from many localities from Argentina (e.g.
Mello-Leitao
1941, 1942). However, we re-examined many of these specimens at the MACN and MNRJ and they belong to either
T. argentinensis
or
T. nitens
. Therefore, we treat both species as nomina dubia.