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Genus: Parazygiella Wunderlich, 2004 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Parazygiella nearctica (Gertsch, 1964)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039205

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Described:

Distribution: Canada, USA

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA m - (Gertsch, 1964a)

Taxonomic References

Zygiella nearctica Gertsch, 1964a: 4, f. 3-6 (Dmf) Original description

Zygiella dispar Levi, 1974a: 278, f. 32, 38-43, 45-47 (mf; misidentified per Dondale et al., 2003: 303)

Zygiella nearctica Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 49, f. 350-352 (mf)

Zygiella nearctica Dondale et al., 2003: 303, f. 711-718 (mf, removed from S of Zygiella dispar, rejecting Levi, 1974a: 278)

Parazygiella nearctica Mi, Wang & Chen, 2026: 52 (T from Zygiella)

References

Dondale, C. D., Redner, J. H., Paquin, P. & Levi, H. W. (2003). The insects and arachnids of Canada. Part 23. The orb-weaving spiders of Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Uloboridae, Tetragnathidae, Araneidae, Theridiosomatidae). NRC Research Press Ottawa, 371 pp. -- Show included taxa

Gertsch, W. J. (1964a). The spider genus Zygiella in North America (Araneae, Argiopidae). American Museum Novitates 2188: 1-21. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1974a). The orb-weaver genus Zygiella (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 146(5): 267-290. -- Show included taxa

Mi, X. Q., Wang, C. & Chen, H. C. (2026). First records of the genus Parazygiella Wunderlich, 2004 (Araneae, Araneidae) from China, with the description of two new species. ZooKeys 1269: 41-54. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1269.163661 -- Show included taxa

Paquin, P. & Dupérré, N. (2003). Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Supplement 11: 1-251. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2026-02-13	Type repository inserted	Gertsch, 1964a
2026-02-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Mi, Wang & Chen, 2026
2026-02-13	Species transferred to new genus	Mi, Wang & Chen, 2026	Species transferred from Zygiella F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 to Parazygiella Wunderlich, 2004