Argenna obesa Emerton, 1911

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022083

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022083

Described:

Distribution: Canada, USA

External Resources*: GBIF

Type Repository Provide information
  • Syntype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 1m 1f (IZ22345) - (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958)
Taxonomic References
Argenna obesa Emerton, 1911: 399, pl. 4, f. 4 (Dmf) Original description
Argenna aktia Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935b: 25, pl. 12, f. 97-98 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065372]
Lathys hesperus Chamberlin, 1948: 14 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065373]
Argenna obesa Kaston, 1948: 503, f. 1888-1890 (mf)
Argenna obesa Gertsch in Roewer, 1955c: 1303 (S of Argenna aktia and Lathys hesperus)
Argenna obesa Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 10, pl. 1, f. 1-5 (mf, S of Argenna aktia and Lathys hesperus confirmed)
Argenna obesa Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 65, f. 527-529 (mf)
Argenna obesa Montana et al., 2025: 48, f. 40A-F (m)
References

Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W. (1935b). Miscellaneous new American spiders. Bulletin of the University of Utah 26(4): 1-79. -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. (1948). The genera of North American Dictynidae. Bulletin of the University of Utah 38(15): 1-31. -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. & Gertsch, W. J. (1958). The spider family Dictynidae in America north of Mexico. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 116: 1-152. [[second pdf contains better scans of the plates]] -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1911). New spiders from New England. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 16: 383-407. -- Show included taxa

Kaston, B. J. (1948). Spiders of Connecticut. Bulletin of the Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey 70: 1-874. -- Show included taxa

Montana, K. O., Cala-Riquelme, F., Crews, S. C., Gorneau, J. A., Al-Jamal, A. M., Alequín, L. D., Spagna, J. C., Ballarin, F. & Esposito, L. A. (2025). Tailor's drawer no more: a reappraisal of the spider family Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 sensu lato. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204(2, zlaf007): 1-97. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf007 [[2nd pdf contains the Suppl. Figs 1-5]] -- Show included taxa

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

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

* Disclaimer
As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-07-06 New taxonomic reference entry Montana et al., 2025

Sponsors