Andronova alberta (Gertsch, 1946)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022447

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Described:

Distribution: Russia (South Siberia to Far East), Alaska, Canada, USA

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  • Syntype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 1m (IZ22474) - (Montana et al., 2025)
Taxonomic References
Lathys pallida Emerton, 1894: 410, pl. 1, f. 5 (Dm, preoccupied by Lathys pallida) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054615]
Lathys alberta Gertsch, 1946a: 3, f. 11 (replacement name) Original description
Argenna matanuska Chamberlin & Ivie, 1947b: 12, pl. 1, f. 1 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054616]
Lathys alberta Schenkel, 1950b: 34, f. 3a-b (f)
Lathys alberta Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 27, pl. 5, f. 8-10 (mf, S of Argenna matanuska)
Lathys alberta Marusik, Ovtchinnikov & Koponen, 2006: 356, f. 10-13, 15a-b, 16a-c, 17-23 (mf)
Lathys alberta Zhang, Hu & Zhang, 2012: 7, f. 12A-H, 13A-H (mf)
Andronova alberta Montana et al., 2025: 63 (T from Lathys)
References

Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W. (1947b). The spiders of Alaska. Bulletin of the University of Utah 37(10): 1-103. -- 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. (1894). Canadian spiders. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 9: 400-429, pl. 1-4. -- Show included taxa

Gertsch, W. J. (1946a). Notes on American spiders of the family Dictynidae. American Museum Novitates 1319: 1-21. -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M., Ovtchinnikov, S. V. & Koponen, S. (2006). Uncommon conformation of the male palp in common Holarctic spiders belonging to the Lathys stigmatisata group (Araneae, Dictynidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13(9): 353-360. -- 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

Schenkel, E. (1950b). Spinnentiere aus dem westlichen Nordamerika, gesammelt von Dr. Hans Schenkel-Rudin. Erster Teil. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 61: 28-92. -- Show included taxa

Zhang, Z. S., Hu, D. S. & Zhang, Y. G. (2012). Notes on the spider genus Lathys Simon, 1884 (Araneae: Dictynidae), with description of four new species from China. Zootaxa 3359: 1-16. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3359.1.1 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-07-06 New taxonomic reference entry Montana et al., 2025
2025-07-06 Species transferred to new genus Montana et al., 2025 Species transferred from Lathys to Andronova

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