Arctilaira vexatrix (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010831

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Described:

Distribution: Russia (Far North-East), Alaska, Canada, Greenland

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Taxonomic References
Erigone vexatrix O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877d: 280, pl. 8, f. 6 (Df) Original description
Porrhomma venator Simon, 1884a: 372 (lapsus)
Erigone frigida Lenz, 1897: 74, f. 4 (f; misidentified per Holm, 1937: 7)
Araeoncus ruderalis Sørensen, 1898: 210 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056683]
Notioscopus curvitarsus Sørensen, 1898: 211 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066807]
Arctilaira bellans Chamberlin, 1921c: 40 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056679]
Hilaira whymperi Jackson, 1933: 152, pl. 2, f. 2, 4 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066808]
Hilaira vexatrix Holm, 1937: 7, f. 3a, d, g (m, S of Hilaira whymperi and Notioscopus curvitarsus)
Hilaira vexatrix Holm, 1937: 7 (S of Hilaira curvitarsus)
Hilaira curvitarsis Brændegaard, 1940: 12, f. 7-9 (mf, lapsus, removed from S of Hilaira vexatrix, rejecting Holm, 1937: 7, S of H. whymperi)
Hilaira curvitarsis Brændegaard, 1946: 38 (validity confirmed)
Hilaira vexatrix Holm, 1956: 464, f. 5g-m (f, S of Araeoncus ruderalis, S of Hilaira curvitarsus confirmed)
Hilaira vexatrix Holm, 1960b: 119, f. 20-22 (mf, S of Arctilaira bellans)
Hilaira vexatrix Leech, 1966: 184, f. 45-46 (mf)
Hilaira vexatrix Hormiga, 2000: 41, f. 14J-N, pl. 35A-F, 36A-F, 37A-F (mf)
Hilaira vexatrix Schmidt & Weller, 2008: 173, f. 6 (f)
Hilaira vexatrix Marusik, 2015: 688, f. 12A-C (mf)
Arctilaira vexatrix Tanasevitch & Marusik, 2026: 130, f. 1B, 5A-C, 14A-J, 15A-C (mf, T from Hilaira)
References

Brændegaard, J. (1940). I. Spiders (Araneina) from northeast Greenland between lats. 70°25' and 76°50' N. II. On the possibility of a reliable determination of species of the females of the genus Erigone. Meddelelser om Grønland 125(8): 1-29. [("Literature": p. [30]-[31])] -- Show included taxa

Brændegaard, J. (1946). The spiders (Araneina) of East Greenland: A faunistic and zoogeographical investigation. Meddelelser om Grønland 121(15): 1-128. -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. (1921c). Linyphiidae of St. Paul Island, Alaska. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 29: 35-43. -- Show included taxa

Holm, Å. (1937). Zur Kenntnis der Spinnenfauna Spitzbergens und der Bären Insel. Arkiv för Zoologi 29(A18): 1-13. -- Show included taxa

Holm, Å. (1956). Notes on Arctic spiders of the genera Erigone Aud. and Hilaira Sim. Arkiv för Zoologi 9: 453-468. -- Show included taxa

Holm, Å. (1960b). On a collection of spiders from Alaska. Zoologiska Bidrag från Uppsala 33: 109-134, pl. 1-4. -- Show included taxa

Hormiga, G. (2000). Higher level phylogenetics of erigonine spiders (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Erigoninae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 609: 1-160. -- Show included taxa

Jackson, A. R. (1933). Results of the Oxford University Expedition to Akpatok in 1931: Araneae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 103(1): 145-159, pl. 1-2. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1933.tb01582.x -- Show included taxa

Leech, R. E. (1966). The spiders (Araneida) of Hazen Camp 81°49'N, 71°18'W. Quaestiones entomologicae 2: 153-212. -- Show included taxa

Lenz, H. (1897). Grönländische Spinnen. Bibliotheca Zoologica 20(3): 73-76. -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. (2015). Araneae (Spiders). In: Böcher, J., Kristensen, N. P., Pape, T. & Vilhelmsen, L. (eds.) The Greenland Entomofauna. An identification manual of insects, spiders and their allies. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 44: 667-703. Brill, Leiden. doi: 10.1163/9789004261051_019 -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1877d). On some new and little known spiders from the Arctic regions. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 20(118): 273-285, pl. 8. doi: 10.1080/00222937708682234 -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. & Weller, K. (2008). Eine Grönland-Odyssee und ihre Arthropoden. Entomologische Zeitschrift 118: 171-174. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1884a). Les arachnides de France. Tome cinquième, deuxième et troisième partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 180-885, pl. 26-27. -- Show included taxa

Sørensen, W. (1898). Arachnida Groenlandica (Acaris exceptis). Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn 1898: 176-235. -- Show included taxa

Tanasevitch, A. V. & Marusik, Y. M. (2026). Reassessment of the spider genus Hilaira Simon, 1884. I. Revalidation of the genus Arctilaira Chamberlin, 1921 (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Invertebrate Zoology 23(1): 114-135. doi: 10.15298/invertzool.23.1.07 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2026-03-25 New taxonomic reference entry Tanasevitch & Marusik, 2026
2026-03-25 Species transferred to new genus Tanasevitch & Marusik, 2026 Species transferred from Hilaira Simon, 1884 to Arctilaira Chamberlin, 1921
2016-03-17 New taxonomic reference entry Marusik, 2015

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