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Genus: Wagneriana F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Wagneriana jelskii (Taczanowski, 1873)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017122

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Described:

Distribution: Trinidad to Bolivia

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Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Polska Akademia Nauk (PAN), Łomna, Poland m - (Cabra-García & Hormiga, 2020)
Holotype: Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (MUSM), Lima, Peru f (0507341) of Wagneriana bamba - (Cabra-García & Hormiga, 2020)

Taxonomic References

Epeira jelskii Taczanowski, 1873: 139 (Dm; f pl. 5, f. 17 see Wagneriana transitoria) Original description

Wagneriana jelskii Caporiacco, 1954: 97, f. 20 (Df, removed from S of Wagneriana transitoria, rejecting Simon, 1895a: 818)

Wagneriana bamba Levi, 1991b: 383, f. 45-48 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017108]

Wagneriana jelskii Levi, 1991b: 380, f. 35-39 (mf)

Wagneriana jelskii Carvalho & Gasnier, 2019: CB17, f. 45-46 (f)

Wagneriana jelskii Cabra-García & Hormiga, 2020: 1096, f. 30J, 32I, 41E-F, 50F, 53D, 57D, 61I, 71B, 90A-F, 101C-D, 104B, 133E-F (mf, S of Wagneriana bamba)

References

Cabra-García, J. & Hormiga, G. (2020). Exploring the impact of morphology, multiple sequence alignment and choice of optimality criteria in phylogenetic inference: a case study with the Neotropical orb-weaving spider genus Wagneriana (Araneae: Araneidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 188(4): 976-1151. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz088 -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1954). Araignées de la Guyane Française du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Commentationes Pontificia Academia Scientiarum 16: 45-193. -- Show included taxa

Carvalho, T. G. de & Gasnier, T. R. J. (2019). Illustrated inventory of spiders from Amazonas state, Brazil: 94 understory species from a forest fragment in Manaus. Scientia Amazonia 8(2): CB1-CB53. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1991b). The Neotropical orb-weaver genera Edricus and Wagneriana (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 152: 363-415. -- Show included taxa

Taczanowski, L. (1873). Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 9: 113-150, 261-286. [[pdf includes Taczanowski, 1872]] -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2020-06-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Carvalho & Gasnier, 2019
2020-04-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Cabra-García & Hormiga, 2020
2020-04-02	Species synonymy	Cabra-García & Hormiga, 2020	Wagneriana bamba synonymized with Wagneriana jelskii