Devade tenella (Tystshenko, 1965)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037104

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Described:

Distribution: Cyprus, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan


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Taxonomic References
Altella tenella Tystshenko, 1965: 696, f. 1 (Df) Original description
Momius hispidus Andreeva & Tystshenko, 1969: 380, f. 5 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054590]
Momius hispidus Andreeva, 1976: 28, f. 27-30 (m)
Momius tenellus Ovtsharenko & Fet, 1980: 445 (T from Altella, S of Momius hispidus)
Devade indistincta indistincta Esyunin, 1994: 39, f. 1a-d, 2a-f, 3a-c, 4a-d (mf; misidentified per Esyunin & Efimik, 2000: 680)
Devade indistincta tatyanae Esyunin, 1994: 43, f. 1e-g, 3d-e (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022239]
Devade uiensis Esyunin, 1994: 45, f. 2g, 3f-g, 4e-h (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054591]
Devade tenella Esyunin & Efimik, 2000: 680, f. 2.3-6, 11-12, 3.1-2 (mf, removed from S of Devade indistincta, rejecting Esyunin, 1994: 41, S of D. indistincta tatyanae)
Devade uiensis Esyunin & Efimik, 2000: 684, f. 1.1-2, 2.7, 3.3-4 (f, Dm)
Devade uiensis turanica Esyunin & Efimik, 2000: 684, f. 2.1-2 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054592]
Devade tenella Esyunin & Marusik, 2001: 130 (S of Devade qiemuensis [revalidated by Wang et al., 2025c: 302], D. uiensis and D. uiensis turanica)
Devade tenella Crews et al., 2020: 913, f. 21A-K (mf)
Devade tenella Wang et al., 2025c: 292 (most references are based on misidentifications)
References

Andreeva, E. M. & Tystshenko, V. P. (1969). On the fauna of spiders (Araneae) from Tadjikistan. Haplogynae, Cribellatae, Ecribellatae Trionychae (Pholcidae, Palpimanidae, Hersiliidae, Oxyopidae). Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 48(2): 373-384. -- Show included taxa

Andreeva, E. M. (1976). Pauki Tajikistana. Publishing House Dokhish, Dushanbe, 196 pp. -- Show included taxa

Crews, S. C., Garcia, E. L., Spagna, J. C., Van Dam, M. H. & Esposito, L. A. (2020). The life aquatic with spiders (Araneae): repeated evolution of aquatic habitat association in Dictynidae and allied taxa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189(3): 862-920 & Suppl. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz139 -- Show included taxa

Esyunin, S. L. (1994). Remarks on the spider fauna of the Urals, 3. Devade Simon, 1884, a genus new to the Urals, with notes on Devade indistincta (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872) (Arachnida Aranei Dictynidae). Arthropoda Selecta 3(1-2): 39-47. -- Show included taxa

Esyunin, S. L. & Efimik, V. E. (2000). A review of the genus Devade (Aranei, Dictynidae) from fauna of central Asia and southern Russia. Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal 79: 679-685. -- Show included taxa

Esyunin, S. L. & Marusik, Y. M. (2001). A new species of the genus Devade Simon, 1884 from Mongolia, with notes on D. tenella (Tyshchenko, 1965) (Aranei: Dictynidae). Arthropoda Selecta 9(2, 1999): 129-131. -- Show included taxa

Ovtsharenko, V. I. & Fet, V. Y. (1980). Fauna and ecology of spiders (Aranei) of Badhyz (Turkmenian SSR). Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 59: 442-447. -- Show included taxa

Tystshenko, V. P. (1965). A new genus and new species of spiders (Aranei) from Kazakhstan. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 44: 696-704. [[also transliterated Tyshchenko]] -- Show included taxa

Wang, L. Y., Yang, Y. S., Marusik, Y. M. & Zhang, Z. S. (2025c). Review of the spider genus Devade Simon, 1885 (Araneae: Dictynidae) from China. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 289-310. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2901 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-05-16 New taxonomic reference entry Wang et al., 2025c
2025-05-16 Species distribution update Wang et al., 2025c Old value
2025-05-16 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Devade qiemuensis (Hu & Wu, 1989)
2025-05-16 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Devade qiemuensis (Hu & Wu, 1989)
2025-05-16 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Devade qiemuensis (Hu & Wu, 1989)
2022-07-15 Species distribution update Bosmans et al., 2019b Old value
2020-06-28 New taxonomic reference entry Crews et al., 2020
2018-12-21 Species distribution update Zamani & Marusik, 2018c Old value

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