Microlinyphia pusilla Sundevall, 1830

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011824

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Described:

Distribution: North America, Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia, China, Mongolia, Japan


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Linyphia globosa Wider, 1834, 1 f (4183-124) -
  • Lectotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Linyphia pratensis Wider, 1834, 1 f (3945-124) -
  • Lectotype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy f (253) of Linyphia carnica - (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
  • Paralectotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Linyphia pratensis Wider, 1834, 23 j, 8 f (23969-124) -
  • Paralectotype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy 4j (254, 255, 278, 279) of Linyphia carnica - (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
Taxonomic References
Linyphia pusilla Sundevall, 1830: 214 (Dmf) Original description
Linyphia fuliginea Blackwall, 1833: 349 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060263]
Theridion signatum Hahn, 1834: 40, f. 125 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060264]
Linyphia pratensis Wider, 1834: 251, pl. 17, f. 8 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060265]
Linyphia globosa Wider, 1834: 252, pl. 17, f. 9 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060266]
Theridion ampullaceum Walckenaer, 1837: 336 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060267]
Linyphia pascuensis Walckenaer, 1841: 251 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060268]
Linyphia globosa Walckenaer, 1841: 272 (Dm)
Linyphia pratensis C. L. Koch, 1845: 121, f. 1043-1046 (f)
Linyphia signata C. L. Koch, 1850: 18
Linyphia pusilla Westring, 1851: 37 (S of Linyphia pratensis)
Linyphia fuliginea Blackwall, 1864a: 216, pl. 15, f. 142 (m, Df)
Linyphia pusilla Menge, 1866: 109, pl. 19, f. 36 (mf)
Linyphia pratensis Ohlert, 1867: 45 (Dm)
Linyphia pusilla Thorell, 1870a: 50 (S of Linyphia signata and Theridion ampullaceum)
Linyphia pusilla O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874d: 329 (S of Linyphia fuliginea)
Linyphia pusilla Simon, 1884a: 241 (S of Linyphia pascuensis)
Linyphia pusilla Keyserling, 1886b: 55, pl. 12, f. 163 (mf)
Linyphia pusilla Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1894: 58, pl. 2, f. 25 (mf)
Linyphia pusilla Becker, 1896: 27, pl. 4, f. 2 (mf)
Linyphia pusilla Bösenberg, 1901: 70, pl. 6, f. 72 (mf)
Linyphia pusilla quadripunctata Strand, 1903a: 8 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011825]
Poeciloneta globosa Strand, 1907e: 227 (S of Poeciloneta variegata; revalidated by Simon, 1929: 740)
Linyphia pusilla Engelhardt, 1910: 64, f. 20 (f)
Linyphia pusilla Comstock, 1912: 398, f. 411-412 (mf)
Linyphia pusilla Fedotov, 1912a: 71, f. 13 (f)
Linyphia carnica Caporiacco, 1922: 81, f. 3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060105]
Linyphia pusilla Simon, 1929: 638, 744, f. 985-987 (mf, S of Linyphia globosa and L. mandibulata; L. mandibulata revalidated by Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943: 24)
Lepthyphantes parenzani Caporiacco, 1932b: 95, f. 1 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060112]
Linyphia baltistana Caporiacco, 1934a: 158, pl. 3, f. 10 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060103]
Linyphia pusilla Saito, 1934b: 307, pl. 15, f. 57 (f)
Linyphia pusilla Blauvelt, 1936: 130, pl. 11, f. 75-79 (mf)
Pusillia pusilla Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943: 26 (T from Linyphia)
Pusillia bonita Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943: 26, f. 41-42 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060104]
Linyphia pusilla Locket & Millidge, 1953: 400, f. 237D, 239A, 241C (mf)
Pusillia pusilla Hackman, 1954: 10, f. 121 (m)
Linyphia pusilla Wiehle, 1956: 331, f. 545-550 (mf)
Linyphia pusilla Saito, 1959: 78, f. 78a-j (mf)
Linyphia pusilla Merrett, 1963b: 376, f. 32A-E (m)
Neolinyphia pusilla Yaginuma, 1966d: 35 (T from Pusillia = Microlinyphia, rejected by van Helsdingen, 1970: 9)
Linyphia pusilla Azheganova, 1968: 67, f. 137-139 (mf)
Linyphia pusilla Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu, 1969: 75, pl. II, f. 6a-b (f)
Microlinyphia pusilla van Helsdingen, 1970: 9, f. 1-8 (mf, S of Linyphia baltistana, L. carnica and Microlinyphia bonita)
Linyphia pusilla Tystshenko, 1971: 9, f. 13, 742 (mf)
Linyphia pusilla Miller, 1971: 222, pl. XLII, f. 27, pl. XLIII, f. 1-2 (mf)
Microlinyphia pusilla Palmgren, 1975: 85, f. 20.5-8 (mf)
Microlinyphia pusilla Punda, 1975b: 12, f. 13 (m)
Linyphia pusilla Legotai & Sekerskaya, 1982: 50, f. IV.3-4 (mf)
Microlinyphia pusilla van Helsdingen, 1982b: 169 (S of Lepthyphantes parenzani)
Microlinyphia pusilla Millidge, 1984b: 239, f. 7 (f)
Microlinyphia pusilla Song, 1987: 1134, f. 95 (mf)
Microlinyphia pusilla Roberts, 1987: 164, f. 86b (mf)
Microlinyphia pusilla Hu & Wu, 1989: 158, f. 130.1-5 (mf)
Linyphia pusilla Legotai & Sekerskaya, 1989: 227, f. LXX.3-4 (mf)
Linyphia pusilla Izmailova, 1989: 77, f. 58 (f)
Microlinyphia pusilla Tanasevitch, 1990: 99, f. 27.12-14 (mf)
Microlinyphia pusilla Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 216, f. 584 (mf)
Microlinyphia pusilla Millidge, 1993c: 150, f. 42 (f)
Microlinyphia pusilla Roberts, 1995: 369, f. (mf)
Microlinyphia pusilla Zhao, 1995: 874, f. 413a-e (mf)
Linyphia pusilla Mcheidze, 1997: 300, f. 693-696 (mf)
Microlinyphia pusilla Roberts, 1998: 380, f. (mf)
Microlinyphia pusilla Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 187, f. 106M-O, Q (mf)
Microlinyphia pusilla Hu, 2001: 524, f. 350.1-4 (mf)
Microlinyphia pusilla Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 143, f. 1583-1585 (mf)
Microlinyphia pusilla Bosmans, 2006a: 143, f. 55-58 (mf)
Microlinyphia pusilla Ono, Matsuda & Saito, 2009: 342, f. 1267-1268 (mf)
Microlinyphia pusilla Nentwig et al., 2019: 39 (S of Microlinyphia pusilla quadripunctata, confirms van Helsdingen, 1970: 11 'colour-variety')
Microlinyphia pusilla Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022: 168, f. 194A-D, 195A-C, 196A-D (mf)
References

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2023-06-13 New taxonomic reference entry Zhao, 1995
2023-01-14 New taxonomic reference entry Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022
2019-09-17 New taxonomic reference entry Nentwig et al., 2019
2019-09-17 Species synonymy Nentwig et al., 2019 Microlinyphia pusilla quadripunctata synonymized with Microlinyphia pusilla

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