Pityohyphantes costatus (Hentz, 1850)

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Described:

Distribution: Canada, USA

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  • Syntype: types (not traceable) of Pityohyphantes costatus annulipes - (Sherwood, 2024b)
Taxonomic References
Linyphia costata Hentz, 1850: 31, pl. 4, f. 11 (Df) Original description
Linyphia phrygiana Emerton, 1882: 63, pl. 19, f. 1a-h (mf; misidentified per Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943: 28)
Linyphia phrygiana Keyserling, 1886b: 60, pl. 12, f. 164 (mf; misidentified sensu Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943: 28)
Linyphia phrygianus annulipes Banks, 1892a: 42 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:012352]
Linyphia phrygiana Emerton, 1902: 141, f. 332-334 (mf; misidentified sensu Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943: 28)
Linyphia phrygiana Comstock, 1910: 171, f. 10-11 (m; misidentified sensu Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943: 28)
Linyphia phrygiana Comstock, 1912: 394, f. 407-409 (mf; misidentified sensu Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943: 28)
Pityohyphantes phrygianus Blauvelt, 1936: 137, pl. 12, f. 80-84, 86 (mf; misidentified sensu Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943: 28)
Linyphia phrygiana Comstock, 1940: 112, 408, f. 102-103, 379, 386 (m; misidentified sensu Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943: 28)
Pityohyphantes phrygianus Muma, 1943: 81, pl. XIII, f. 13-14 (mf; misidentified sensu Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943: 28)
Pityohyphantes costatus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943: 28 (removed from S of Pityohyphantes phrygianus, rejecting Emerton, 1882: 63)
Pityohyphantes phrygianus Kaston, 1948: 119, f. 240-248 (mf; misidentified sensu Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943: 28)
Pityohyphantes costatus Kaston, 1972a: 125, f. 16, 282-283 (mf)
Pityohyphantes costatus Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 146, f. 1615-1617 (mf)
Pityohyphantes costatus Sherwood, 2024b: 220 (S of Pityohyphantes costatus annulipes)
References

Banks, N. (1892a). The spider fauna of the Upper Cayuga Lake Basin. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 44: 11-81, pl. 1-5. -- Show included taxa

Blauvelt, H. H. (1936). The comparative morphology of the secondary sexual organs of Linyphia and some related genera, including a revision of the group. Festschrift Embrik Strand 2: 81-171, pl. 4-23. -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W. (1943). New genera and species of North American linyphiid spiders. Bulletin of the University of Utah 33(10): 1-39. -- Show included taxa

Comstock, J. H. (1912). The spider book. A manual for the study of the spiders and their near relatives, the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whipscorpions, harvestmen and other members of the class Arachnida, found in America north of Mexico, with analytical keys for their classification and popular accounts of their habits. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City/New York, 721 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.3163 -- Show included taxa

Comstock, J. H. (1940). The spider book, revised and edited by W. J. Gertsch. Cornell Univ. Press Ithaca, 727 pp. -- Show included taxa

Comstock, J. H. (1910). The palpi of male spiders. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 3(3): 161-185. doi: 10.1093/aesa/3.3.161 -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1882). New England spiders of the family Theridiidae. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6: 1-86. -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1902). The common spiders of the United States. Ginn & Company Publ., Boston & London, 225 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.5617 -- Show included taxa

Hentz, N. M. (1850). Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 6(1, 2): 18-35, 271-295, pl. 3-4, 9-10. -- 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

Kaston, B. J. (1972a). How to know the spiders, second ed. Dubuque, pp. 1-289. -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1886b). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Theridiidae. II. Hälfte. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 295 pp., pl. 11-21. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.64832 -- Show included taxa

Muma, M. H. (1943). Common spiders of Maryland. Natural History Society of Maryland Baltimore, 179 pp. -- Show included taxa

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

Sherwood, D. (2024b). Studies on spider nomenclature – I: miscellaneous notes on unrecognisable species, new synonyms, and untenable subspecies (Araneae: Araneomorphae). The Indochina Entomologist 1(23): 189-235. doi: 10.70590/ice.2024.01.23 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Sherwood, 2024b
2025-01-05 Species synonymy Sherwood, 2024b Pityohyphantes costatus annulipes synonymized with Pityohyphantes costatus
2019-06-10 New taxonomic reference entry Comstock, 1910

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