Metazygia dubia (Keyserling, 1864)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016430

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Described:

Distribution: Costa Rica, Jamaica, Cuba to Galapagos, Peru, Brazil

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Taxonomic References
Epeira dubia Keyserling, 1864: 123, pl. 4, f. 12-13 (Df) Original description
Epeira dubia Keyserling, 1892: 187, pl. 9, f. 138 (f)
Araneus dubius Petrunkevitch, 1911: 290
Epeira moraballii Hingston, 1932: 363 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060386]
Metazygia dubia Levi, 1991a: 179 (T from Araneus)
Metazygia dubia Levi, 1995a: 82, f. 15-21 (Dm, f, S of Araneus moraballii)
Metazygia dubia Baert et al., 2023: 6, f. 14A-D (mf)
References

Baert, L., Maelfait, J.-P., Desender, K., Hendrickx, F., Dekoninck, W., Berthet, M., Bouckaert, K., Caudron, J. & Leclercq, M. (2023). Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands. Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1-188. [[includes figs of 5 undescribed species]] -- Show included taxa

Hingston, R. W. G. (1932). A naturalist in the Guiana forest. London, pp. 1-384 (Araneae, 363-377). -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1864). Beschreibungen neuer und wenig bekannter Arten aus der Familie Orbitelae Latr. oder Epeiridae Sund. Sitzungs-Berichte der naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Isis in Dresden 1863: 63-98, 119-154, pl. 1-7. -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1892). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 4, 1-208. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.64832 -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1991a). The Neotropical and Mexican species of the orb-weaver genera Araneus, Dubiepeira, and Aculepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 152(4): 167-315. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1995a). The Neotropical orb-weaver genus Metazygia (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 154: 63-151. -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2024-12-22 New taxonomic reference entry Baert et al., 2023
2022-12-07 Species distribution update Old value

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