Nigma puella Simon, 1870

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022515

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Described:

Distribution: Azores, Madeira, Canary Is., Europe, Algeria, Tunisia


Type Repository Provide information
  • It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Dictyna lobensis Schmidt, 1976, 1 f (29120-94) -
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Nigma canariensis Wunderlich, 1987, 1 m (37263-94) -
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Nigma eburnea Schmidt, 1982, 1 f (31609-94) -
  • Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Nigma canariensis Wunderlich, 1987, 2 f (37216-94); 1 f (37218-94); 1 f (37230-94); 1 f (37244-94); 3 m (37247-94); 1 m (37261-94); 1 m, 3 f (37272-94) -
  • Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Nigma eburnea Schmidt, 1982, 1 f (31610-94) -
Taxonomic References
Dictyna puella Simon, 1870b: 299 (Df) Original description
Dictyna puella Simon, 1874a: 180, pl. 3, f. 4 (f)
Dictyna puella Kulczyński, 1899: 330, pl. 6, f. 7, 10 (f, Dm)
Dictyna puella Simon, 1914: 51, 64, f. 98-99 (mf)
Dictyna puella Locket & Millidge, 1951: 64, f. 23B, 26A-B, E, 27A (mf)
Heterodictyna puella Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 47 (Tmf from Dictyna)
Nigma puella Lehtinen, 1967: 252 (Tmf from Heterodictyna)
Dictyna lobensis Schmidt, 1976: 321, f. 4 (Df)
Dictyna eburnea Schmidt, 1982: 394, f. 2 (Df)
Nigma puella Roberts, 1985: 52, f. 15a (mf)
Nigma canariensis Wunderlich, 1987a: 226, f. 593-596a (Dmf)
Nigma puella Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 380, f. 988 (m)
Nigma puella Wunderlich, 1992a: 429 (S)
Nigma puella Millidge, 1993c: 154, f. 55 (f)
Nigma puella Roberts, 1995: 86, f. (mf)
Nigma puella Roberts, 1998: 88, f. (mf)
Nigma puella Wunderlich, 2011: 313, f. 4, 6, 9, 13, 18 (m)
Nigma puella Russell-Smith, 2017: 17, f. 2A (m)
Nigma puella Breitling, 2020: 342, f. 7C (f)
Nigma puella Rehfeldt & Cassar, 2024: 22, f. 7a-b, 40d (f)
References

Breitling, R. (2020). South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18(4): 333-362. doi: 10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.333 -- 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

Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1899). Arachnoidea opera Rev. E. Schmitz collecta in insulis Maderianis et in insulis Selvages dictis. Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzen Wydzialu Matematyczno Przyrodniczego Akademji Umiejetnosci, Krakow 36: 319-461. -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468. [[second pdf: index and outline by V. D. Roth (unpubl.)]] -- Show included taxa

Locket, G. H. & Millidge, A. F. (1951). British spiders. Vol. I. Ray Society, London, 310 pp. -- Show included taxa

Millidge, A. F. (1993c). Further remarks on the taxonomy and relationships of the Linyphiidae, based on the epigynal duct confirmations and other characters (Araneae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 9: 145-156. -- Show included taxa

Rehfeldt, S. & Cassar, T. (2024). A contribution to the arachnofauna (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones) of the Maltese Islands, with two new records for Europe. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 67: 18-47. doi: 10.30963/aramit6704 -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1985). The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1: Atypidae to Theridiosomatidae. Harley Books Colchester, England, 229 pp. -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1995). Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins London, 383 pp. -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1998). Spinnengids. Tirion Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp. -- Show included taxa

Russell-Smith, A. (2017). The rediscovery of Nigma flavescens in Britain. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 140: 16-17. -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1976). Zur Spinnenfauna von Fuerteventura und Lobos. Zoologische Beiträge (N.F.) 22: 315-335. -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1982). Zur Spinnenfauna von La Palma. Zoologische Beiträge (N. F.) 27: 393-414. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1870b). Aranéides nouveaux ou peu connus du midi de l'Europe. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège (2) 3: 271-358. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1874a). Les arachnides de France. Paris 1, 1-272. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1914). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 1re partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-308. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1987a). Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen. Triops Langen, 435 pp. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1992a). Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie und Evolution. Beiträge zur Araneologie 1: 1-619. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2011). Extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 6: 1-640. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Gloor, D., Hänggi, A., Kropf, C.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 05.2018. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2024-06-17 New taxonomic reference entry Rehfeldt & Cassar, 2024
2024-06-17 Species distribution update Old value
2020-03-23 New taxonomic reference entry Breitling, 2020
2018-01-08 New taxonomic reference entry Russell-Smith, 2017

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