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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 13" captionStartId="F13" captionText="Figure 13. Tetragnatha nitens under T. labialis, female lectotype (MNHN 4209). A. Left chelicera, upper view; B. Left chelicera, inner view; C. Left chelicera, lower view; D. Original label." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/760565" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">, 13</figureCitation>
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Linnaeus" baseAuthorityYear="1758" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Tetragnatha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Tetragnatha extensa" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="extensa">Tetragnatha extensa</taxonomicName>
(Linnaeus, 1758): Nicolet, 1849: 516, plate 4, figs 5, 5a-d (female, misidentified).
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Audouin" authorityYear="1826" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Eugnatha" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Eugnatha nitens" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nitens">Eugnatha nitens</taxonomicName>
<bibRefCitation author="Audouin, V" journalOrPublisher="Histoire Naturelle" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="1 - 339" refId="B5" refString="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 franҫaise, publie par les ordres de sa Majeste l'Empereur Napoleon le Grand. Paris: Ed. Imprimerie Imperiale. Histoire Naturelle 1 (4): 1 - 339" title="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 franҫaise, publie par les ordres de sa Majeste l'Empereur Napoleon le Grand. Paris: Ed. Imprimerie Imperiale." volume="1" year="1826">Audouin 1826</bibRefCitation>
: 118, plate 2, fig. 2 (female).
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="175">
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Audouin" baseAuthorityYear="1826" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Tetragnatha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Tetragnatha nitens" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nitens">Tetragnatha nitens</taxonomicName>
:
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.61095" author="Walckenaer, CA" journalOrPublisher="Apteres" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="1 - 549" refId="B72" refString="Walckenaer, CA, 1841. Histoire naturelle des Insects. Paris. Apteres 2: 1 - 549, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.61095" title="Histoire naturelle des Insects. Paris." url="https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.61095" volume="2" year="1841">Walckenaer 1841</bibRefCitation>
: 209.
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Nicolet" authorityYear="1849" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Tetragnatha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Tetragnatha labialis" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="labialis">Tetragnatha labialis</taxonomicName>
<bibRefCitation author="Gay, C" journalOrPublisher="Zoologia" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="319 - 543" refId="B52" refString="Gay, C, 1849. Aracnidos. In: Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Paris, Ed. Maude y Renou. Zoologia 3: 319 - 543" title="Aracnidos." volume="3" volumeTitle="Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Paris, Ed. Maude y Renou." year="1849">Nicolet 1849</bibRefCitation>
: 520 (female). New Synonymy.
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Nicolet" authorityYear="1849" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Tetragnatha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Tetragnatha labialis" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="labialis">Tetragnatha labialis</taxonomicName>
:
<bibRefCitation author="Keyserling, E" journalOrPublisher="Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koeniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="799 - 856" refId="B37" refString="Keyserling, E, 1865. Beitraege zur Kenntniss der Orbitelae Latr. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koeniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 15: 799 - 856" title="Beitraege zur Kenntniss der Orbitelae Latr." volume="15" year="1865">Keyserling 1865</bibRefCitation>
: 851, plate 21, figs 11-13 (male and female misidentified).
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Simon, 1896: CV-CVI (sex?), New Synonymy.
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Nicolet" authorityYear="1849" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Tetragnatha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Tetragnatha labialis" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="labialis">Tetragnatha labialis</taxonomicName>
Simon, 1896: CVII (sex?); 1902: 25; 1904: 94.
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1905" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Tetragnatha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Tetragnatha americana" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="americana">Tetragnatha americana</taxonomicName>
: Simon, 1905: 10 (male, female, misidentified).
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">Tetragnatha americana</emphasis>
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: Unspecified number of syntypes from
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, Santiago, Chile, Lataste Coll., MNHN?, MHNS?,
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.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">Tetragnatha labialis</emphasis>
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: Unspecified number of adult female syntypes from Santiago, Chile, Nicolet Coll. (female MNHN 4209, herein designated as lectotype),
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.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="175">Additional Record.</paragraph>
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Chile - • 1 male from Punta Arenas (
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: Simon det., MNHN 22312),
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.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="175">Notes.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="175">
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</taxonomicName>
was a new name
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, p. CV-CVI) applied to a species he considered as the same one misidentified as
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and redescribed by
<bibRefCitation author="Gay, C" journalOrPublisher="Zoologia" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="319 - 543" refId="B52" refString="Gay, C, 1849. Aracnidos. In: Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Paris, Ed. Maude y Renou. Zoologia 3: 319 - 543" title="Aracnidos." volume="3" volumeTitle="Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Paris, Ed. Maude y Renou." year="1849">Nicolet (1849</bibRefCitation>
, p. 516). He only added the following expression in a list of spiders from Chile assembled by F. Lataste: &quot;
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">Tetragnatha americana</emphasis>
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E. Sim. (=
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Nicolet)&quot;. Those specimens were collected in
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, Santiago, Chile, and deposited at the &quot;Museo Zoolojico de la Escuela de Medicina&quot;, currently the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile (MHNS, see
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(2019)
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for additional information).
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.9304" author="Simon, E" journalOrPublisher="Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Universita di Torino" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="1 - 18" refId="B68" refString="Simon, E, 1905. Etude sur les arachnides recueillis en Patagonie par le Dr. Fillipo Silvestri. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Universita di Torino 20 (511): 1 - 18, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.9304" title="Etude sur les arachnides recueillis en Patagonie par le Dr. Fillipo Silvestri." url="https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.9304" volume="20" year="1905">Simon (1905</bibRefCitation>
, p. 10) applied again without any justification the name
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to the species he considered as
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sensu Nicolet, citing three females from Santa Cruz, Argentina. He listed
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">T. extensa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sensu Nicolet under the title of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">Tetragnatha americana</emphasis>
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, and included the bibliographical reference to the book, again without mentioning the examination of
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specimens or any morphological character.
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.9304" author="Simon, E" journalOrPublisher="Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Universita di Torino" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="1 - 18" refId="B68" refString="Simon, E, 1905. Etude sur les arachnides recueillis en Patagonie par le Dr. Fillipo Silvestri. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Universita di Torino 20 (511): 1 - 18, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.9304" title="Etude sur les arachnides recueillis en Patagonie par le Dr. Fillipo Silvestri." url="https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.9304" volume="20" year="1905">Simon (1905)</bibRefCitation>
added that the specimens he had from Santa Cruz &quot;were not different from
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of Chile, where the species is very common&quot;.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="175">
Despite
<bibRefCitation author="Simon, E" journalOrPublisher="Actes de la Societe Scientifique du Chili" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="63 - 70" refId="B65" refString="Simon, E, 1896. Etude sur les Arachnides du Chili. Premier memoire. Actes de la Societe Scientifique du Chili 6: 63 - 70" title="Etude sur les Arachnides du Chili. Premier memoire." volume="6" year="1896">Simon (1896</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.9304" author="Simon, E" journalOrPublisher="Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Universita di Torino" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="1 - 18" refId="B68" refString="Simon, E, 1905. Etude sur les arachnides recueillis en Patagonie par le Dr. Fillipo Silvestri. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Universita di Torino 20 (511): 1 - 18, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.9304" title="Etude sur les arachnides recueillis en Patagonie par le Dr. Fillipo Silvestri." url="https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.9304" volume="20" year="1905">1905</bibRefCitation>
) not clearly stating that he intended to add a new replacement name for
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</taxonomicName>
sensu Nicolet, no previous citation to
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was found after an analysis of
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papers dealing with spiders from Chile. Following
<bibRefCitation author="Bonnet, P" journalOrPublisher="Memoires Couronnes et Memoires des Savants Etrangers de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" refId="B7" refString="Bonnet, P, 1959. Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse methodique de toute la litterature araneologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systematique des araignees (Etude par ordre alphabetique) (5eme partie: T-Z). Douladoure, Toulouse, 4231-5058." title="Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse methodique de toute la litterature araneologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systematique des araignees (Etude par ordre alphabetique) (5 eme partie: T-Z). Douladoure, Toulouse, 4231 - 5058." year="1959">Bonnet (1959</bibRefCitation>
, sub &quot;
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</taxonomicName>
Simon, 1897&quot;, p. 4317) and against
<bibRefCitation author="Roewer, CF" journalOrPublisher="Natura, Buchhandlung fuer Naturkunde und exakte Wissenschaften Paul Budy Bremen" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" refId="B60" refString="Roewer, CF, 1942. Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940. 1. Band (Mesothelae, Orthognatha, Labidognatha: Dysderaeformia, Scytodiformia, Pholciformia, Zodariiformia, Hersiliaeformia, Argyopiformia). Natura, Buchhandlung fuer Naturkunde und exakte Wissenschaften Paul Budy Bremen" title="Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940. 1. Band (Mesothelae, Orthognatha, Labidognatha: Dysderaeformia, Scytodiformia, Pholciformia, Zodariiformia, Hersiliaeformia, Argyopiformia)." year="1942">Roewer (1942</bibRefCitation>
, p. 988) and the
<bibRefCitation author="Wiehle, H" journalOrPublisher="Die Tierwelt Deutschlands" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" publicationUrl="http://wsc.nmbe.ch" refId="B75" refString="2022. . http://wsc.nmbe.ch" url="http://wsc.nmbe.ch" year="2022">World Spider Catalog (2022)</bibRefCitation>
, we consider 1896 and not 1905 as the year of the proposition of the new name
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">T. americana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The citation by
<bibRefCitation author="Simon, E" journalOrPublisher="Actes de la Societe Scientifique du Chili" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="63 - 70" refId="B65" refString="Simon, E, 1896. Etude sur les Arachnides du Chili. Premier memoire. Actes de la Societe Scientifique du Chili 6: 63 - 70" title="Etude sur les Arachnides du Chili. Premier memoire." volume="6" year="1896">Simon (1896</bibRefCitation>
, p. CV) was apparently the first appearance of the name and it is available under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999), following its article 12, which establishes that an unambiguous reference to a
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description suffices to make available a name published before 1931.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="175">
The type-series of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">T. americana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Simon, 1896 is therefore composed of the specimens from
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examined by
<bibRefCitation author="Simon, E" journalOrPublisher="Actes de la Societe Scientifique du Chili" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="63 - 70" refId="B65" refString="Simon, E, 1896. Etude sur les Arachnides du Chili. Premier memoire. Actes de la Societe Scientifique du Chili 6: 63 - 70" title="Etude sur les Arachnides du Chili. Premier memoire." volume="6" year="1896">Simon (1896)</bibRefCitation>
when proposing the new name and also the specimens from Valdivia province studied and illustrated by
<bibRefCitation author="Gay, C" journalOrPublisher="Zoologia" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="319 - 543" refId="B52" refString="Gay, C, 1849. Aracnidos. In: Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Paris, Ed. Maude y Renou. Zoologia 3: 319 - 543" title="Aracnidos." volume="3" volumeTitle="Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Paris, Ed. Maude y Renou." year="1849">Nicolet (1849)</bibRefCitation>
, but not by the specimens from Santa Cruz, Argentina (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 11" captionStartId="F11" captionText="Figure 11. Tetragnatha laboriosa under T. americana, female (MNHN 3140). A. Dorsal habitus; B. Original label citing Santa Cruz, Argentina; C. Ventral habitus; D. Left chelicera, inner view; E. Chelicerae, apical view." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/760563" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">11</figureCitation>
) and unspecified localities of Chile cited by
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.9304" author="Simon, E" journalOrPublisher="Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Universita di Torino" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="1 - 18" refId="B68" refString="Simon, E, 1905. Etude sur les arachnides recueillis en Patagonie par le Dr. Fillipo Silvestri. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Universita di Torino 20 (511): 1 - 18, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.9304" title="Etude sur les arachnides recueillis en Patagonie par le Dr. Fillipo Silvestri." url="https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.9304" volume="20" year="1905">Simon (1905)</bibRefCitation>
. According to the article 72.4.1.1 and its example, all the specimens studied by the
<normalizedToken originalValue="species">species'</normalizedToken>
author or referred unambiguously to in the original description constitute the type series. As stated by
<bibRefCitation author="Levi, HW" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="1 - 20" refId="B42" refString="Levi, HW, 1967. The theridiid spider fauna of Chile. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 136: 1 - 20" title="The theridiid spider fauna of Chile." volume="136" year="1967">Levi (1967</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Levi, HW" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="445 - 475" refId="B45" refString="Levi, HW, 2001. The orbweavers of the genera Molinaranea and Nicolepeira, a new species of Parawixia, and comments on orb weavers of temperate South America (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 155: 445 - 475" title="The orbweavers of the genera Molinaranea and Nicolepeira, a new species of Parawixia, and comments on orb weavers of temperate South America (Araneae: Araneidae)." volume="155" year="2001">2001</bibRefCitation>
), Nicolet probably returned to Paris in 1846 and brought with him a large part of the types of Chilean species he described. Levi was able to find at MNHN types of many species of
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, but he considered most
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types as lost. We also have not been able to find most
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types of species described by Nicolet in MNHN, excepting
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">T. labialis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. We requested information about
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">Tetragnatha</emphasis>
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specimens from the MHNS but did not receive an answer and there is no evidence that any of Nicolet or
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specimens are still available in this institution. Because
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">T. labialis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was found in MNHN, we consider that this was probably the same depository institution for the other species described by
<bibRefCitation author="Gay, C" journalOrPublisher="Zoologia" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="319 - 543" refId="B52" refString="Gay, C, 1849. Aracnidos. In: Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Paris, Ed. Maude y Renou. Zoologia 3: 319 - 543" title="Aracnidos." volume="3" volumeTitle="Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Paris, Ed. Maude y Renou." year="1849">Nicolet (1849)</bibRefCitation>
and the specimens from Valdivia province described as
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">T. extensa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. However, except for
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">T. labialis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, no other original specimen from
<bibRefCitation author="Gay, C" journalOrPublisher="Zoologia" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="319 - 543" refId="B52" refString="Gay, C, 1849. Aracnidos. In: Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Paris, Ed. Maude y Renou. Zoologia 3: 319 - 543" title="Aracnidos." volume="3" volumeTitle="Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Paris, Ed. Maude y Renou." year="1849">Nicolet (1849)</bibRefCitation>
was found at MNHN. Likewise,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">T. americana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
specimens identified by Simon from
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and Santiago were also not found in the general collection of the MNHN. Therefore, we consider the syntypes of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">T. americana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
presumed lost.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="175">
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description focused on the shape and size of structures such as carapace, eyes, abdomen, chelicerae and pedipalps, but did not include precise details on chelicerae and genital morphology to allow species identification. Fortunately, he also provided relatively good drawings (
<bibRefCitation author="Gay, C" journalOrPublisher="Zoologia" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="319 - 543" refId="B52" refString="Gay, C, 1849. Aracnidos. In: Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Paris, Ed. Maude y Renou. Zoologia 3: 319 - 543" title="Aracnidos." volume="3" volumeTitle="Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Paris, Ed. Maude y Renou." year="1849">Nicolet 1849</bibRefCitation>
, plate 4, fig. 5), which clearly depict a female specimen of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">T. nitens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, based for example on the sinuous cheliceral fang, Gu and U2 large and of similar size and well-spaced, and AXl large but not overreaching the fang basis. So, the description and illustrations by
<bibRefCitation author="Gay, C" journalOrPublisher="Zoologia" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="319 - 543" refId="B52" refString="Gay, C, 1849. Aracnidos. In: Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Paris, Ed. Maude y Renou. Zoologia 3: 319 - 543" title="Aracnidos." volume="3" volumeTitle="Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Paris, Ed. Maude y Renou." year="1849">Nicolet (1849)</bibRefCitation>
are the only reliable information on the type series we recovered.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="175">
We were able to analyse all the specimens currently present in the MNHN collection and identified as
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="T. americana" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" rank="species" species="americana">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">T. americana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by Simon. Some of these are specimens of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">T. laboriosa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, represented by several specimens from Chile (MNHN 12628) and just one of the three females from Santa Cruz, Argentina (MNHN 3140, Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 11" captionStartId="F11" captionText="Figure 11. Tetragnatha laboriosa under T. americana, female (MNHN 3140). A. Dorsal habitus; B. Original label citing Santa Cruz, Argentina; C. Ventral habitus; D. Left chelicera, inner view; E. Chelicerae, apical view." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/760563" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">11</figureCitation>
) cited by
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.9304" author="Simon, E" journalOrPublisher="Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Universita di Torino" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="1 - 18" refId="B68" refString="Simon, E, 1905. Etude sur les arachnides recueillis en Patagonie par le Dr. Fillipo Silvestri. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Universita di Torino 20 (511): 1 - 18, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.9304" title="Etude sur les arachnides recueillis en Patagonie par le Dr. Fillipo Silvestri." url="https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.9304" volume="20" year="1905">Simon (1905)</bibRefCitation>
. On the other hand, there is a male from Punta Arenas, Chile, that is clearly
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">T. nitens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(MNHN 22312, Fig.
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). Although these specimens are just additional material examined, they were identified by Simon himself, thus helping to establish his concept of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">T. americana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Although some specimens Simon identified as
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">T. americana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are in fact
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">T. laboriosa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the original drawings of a female syntype of &quot;
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">T. extensa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
&quot; from Nicolet and secondarily the male from Punta Arenas (MNHN 22312, Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 12" captionStartId="F12" captionText="Figure 12. Tetragnatha nitens under T. americana, male. A. Left chelicera, inner view; B. Chelicerae, slanted lower view." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/760564" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">12</figureCitation>
) identified by Simon allow us to indicate that
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">Tetragnatha americana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Simon, 1896 is
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</taxonomicName>
(Audouin, 1826) syn. nov.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="175">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">Figure 12.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">Tetragnatha nitens</emphasis>
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under
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, male.
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Left chelicera, inner view;
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Chelicerae, slanted lower view.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="175">
As mentioned above, the only species dealt with by
<bibRefCitation author="Gay, C" journalOrPublisher="Zoologia" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="319 - 543" refId="B52" refString="Gay, C, 1849. Aracnidos. In: Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Paris, Ed. Maude y Renou. Zoologia 3: 319 - 543" title="Aracnidos." volume="3" volumeTitle="Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Paris, Ed. Maude y Renou." year="1849">Nicolet (1849)</bibRefCitation>
that we were able to locate at MNHN was
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</taxonomicName>
, described based on an unspecified number of female syntypes from Santiago, Chile. A female specimen (MNHN 4209), labelled as &quot;
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">Tetragnatha labialis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Nicol. Gay Saint Iago&quot; (Fig.
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) was examined. This female clearly belongs to the syntype series examined by Nicolet and is herein designated as lectotype. Following
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.95.36762" author="Castanheira, PdS" journalOrPublisher="Zoosystematics and Evolution" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="465 - 505" refId="B18" refString="Castanheira, PdS, Baptista, RLC, Pizzeti, DdP, Teixeira, RA, 2019. 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. Zoosystematics and Evolution 95 (2): 465 - 505, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.95.36762" title="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." url="https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.95.36762" volume="95" year="2019">Castanheira et al. (2019)</bibRefCitation>
, this specimen is clearly
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">T. nitens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, as shown for example by the following diagnostic cheliceral characters: Gl distalward followed by smaller L2 and L3, AXl reduced and point distalward, Gu elongated and not contiguous to U2 and robust basal cusp placed at the lower side of fang (Fig.
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). Therefore, we propose
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">Tetragnatha labialis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<bibRefCitation author="Gay, C" journalOrPublisher="Zoologia" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="319 - 543" refId="B52" refString="Gay, C, 1849. Aracnidos. In: Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Paris, Ed. Maude y Renou. Zoologia 3: 319 - 543" title="Aracnidos." volume="3" volumeTitle="Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Paris, Ed. Maude y Renou." year="1849">Nicolet 1849</bibRefCitation>
=
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">Tetragnatha nitens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Audouin, 1826) syn. nov. Additionally, the male and female specimens from Nova Granada (probably Colombia) named
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">T. labialis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by
<bibRefCitation author="Keyserling, E" journalOrPublisher="Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koeniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="799 - 856" refId="B37" refString="Keyserling, E, 1865. Beitraege zur Kenntniss der Orbitelae Latr. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koeniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 15: 799 - 856" title="Beitraege zur Kenntniss der Orbitelae Latr." volume="15" year="1865">Keyserling (1865)</bibRefCitation>
are misidentified. The original drawings of the chelicerae resemble
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">T. argentinensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Keyserling, E" journalOrPublisher="Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koeniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="799 - 856" refId="B37" refString="Keyserling, E, 1865. Beitraege zur Kenntniss der Orbitelae Latr. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koeniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 15: 799 - 856" title="Beitraege zur Kenntniss der Orbitelae Latr." volume="15" year="1865">Keyserling 1865</bibRefCitation>
, fig. 11-13) or perhaps some related, undescribed species from Colombia. Furthermore, the original locality (Nova Granada) is too far north of the currently known
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">T. argentinensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
distribution range (
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). The Chilean specimens of
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="T. labialis" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" rank="species" species="labialis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">T. labialis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
cited by
<bibRefCitation author="Simon, E" journalOrPublisher="Band Arthropoden" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" pagination="1 - 47" refId="B66" refString="Simon, E, 1902. Arachnoideen, excl. Acariden und Gonyleptiden. In: Ergebnisse der Hamburger Magalhaensischen Sammelreise 1892/1893. Hamburg, L. Ed. Friederichsen &amp; Co. Band Arthropoden 6 (4): 1 - 47" title="Arachnoideen, excl. Acariden und Gonyleptiden. In: Ergebnisse der Hamburger Magalhaensischen Sammelreise 1892 / 1893. Hamburg, L. Ed. Friederichsen &amp; Co." volume="6" year="1902">Simon (1902</bibRefCitation>
,
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) from Valdivia and Punta Arenas, respectively, were not found at MNHN. Only a male from
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="T. americana" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" rank="species" species="americana">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">T. americana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from Punta Arenas was located as we explained above (Fig.
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).
</paragraph>
<caption httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/760565" pageId="0" pageNumber="175" start="Figure 13" startId="F13">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="175">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">Figure 13.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">Tetragnatha nitens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
under
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">T. labialis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, female lectotype (MNHN 4209).
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">A.</emphasis>
Left chelicera, upper view;
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">B.</emphasis>
Left chelicera, inner view;
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">C.</emphasis>
Left chelicera, lower view;
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="175">D.</emphasis>
Original label.
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