Tengella

This article is about the genus of spiders. For the West Africa leader, see Tenguella.

Tengella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Zoropsidae
Genus: Tengella
Dahl, 1901[1]
Type species
T. perfuga
Dahl, 1901
Species

5, see text

Synonyms[1]

Tengella is a genus of false wolf spiders that was first described by Friedrich Dahl in 1901.[3] It is a senior synonym of Metafecenia.[2]

Species

As of September 2019 it contains five species, found in Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Mexico:[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Tengella Dahl, 1901". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  2. ^ a b Lehtinen, Pekka T. (1967). "Classification of the Cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4 (3): 248, 268. JSTOR 23731560.
  3. ^ a b Dahl, Friedrich (1901). "Nachtrag zur Uebersicht der Zoropsiden". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 1901: 251–253.
  4. ^ Pickard-Cambridge, Frederick O. (1902). "Metafecenia, gen. nov.". Araneida and Opiliones. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Vol. Arachnida. II. London. pp. 356–357; Pl. 33, Figs. 16, 17. {{cite book}}: External link in |postscript= (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  5. ^ Candia-Ramírez, Daniela T.; Valdez-Mondragón, Alejandro (2014). "A new troglobitic species of the spider genus Tengella Dahl (Araneae, Tengellidae) from Chiapas, Mexico". Zootaxa. 3764 (3): 377–386. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3764.3.7. PMID 24870640.
  6. ^ Kulczyński, Vl. (1909). "Fragmenta arachnologica, VII" (PDF). Bulletin de l'Académie des Sciences de Cracovie. Classe des Sciences mathématiques et naturelles. 1909: 447–450; Pl. 22, Fig. 18.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  7. ^ Platnick, Norman I. (2009). "A review of the spider genus Tengella (Araneae: Tengellidae)" (PDF). Contributions to Natural History. 12: 1071–1090.

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