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Genus: Tetragnatha Latreille, 1804 | Family: Tetragnathidae Menge, 1866

Tetragnatha demissa L. Koch, 1872

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Described:

Distribution: Australia. Introduced to Cyprus, Tanzania, South Africa, Seychelles, Tonga

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f (1978.11.1.27) of Tetragnatha grenda - (Roberts, 1983)
Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) Tetragnatha demissa L. Koch, 1872, (3371) -
Allotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK m (1978.11.1.28) of Tetragnatha grenda - (Roberts, 1983)

Taxonomic References

Tetragnatha demissa L. Koch, 1872a: 185, pl. 16, f. 1 (Df) Original description

Tetragnatha protensa Keyserling, 1887a: 222, pl. 20, f. 3 (m [chelicerae]) [misidentified per Okuma, 1987: 57].

Tetragnatha foliifera Simon, 1898d: 377 (Df)

Tetragnatha quadridens Dondale, 1966: 1175, f. 4A-E (Dmf)

Tetragnatha marginata Saaristo, 1978: 124, f. 232-241 (f, Dm, misidentified)

Tetragnatha grenda Roberts, 1983: 247, f. 103-113 (Dmf)

Tetragnatha demissa Okuma, 1987: 50, f. 7A-K (mf, S)

Tetragnatha demissa Okuma & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1988: 227, f. 6A-M (mf)

Tetragnatha demissa Saaristo, 2003: 25, f. 23, 27 (mf, S)

Tetragnatha demissa Saaristo, 2010: 236, f. 36.29, 33 (mf)

Tetragnatha demissa Bosmans et al., 2019b: 28, f. 17a-v (mf)

Tetragnatha demissa Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020t: 35, 10 f. (mf)

Tetragnatha demissa Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2023a: 38, f. 1-7 (mf)

References

Bosmans, R., Van Keer, J., Russell-Smith, A., Hadjiconstantis, M., Komnenov, M., Bosselaers, J., Huber, S., McCowan, D., Snazell, R., Decae, A., Zoumides, C., Kielhorn, K.-H. & Oger, P. (2019b). Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian arachnological Society 34(Supplement): 1-173. -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2020t). The Tetragnathidae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 46 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7578068 -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2023a). The Tetragnathidae of South Africa. Version 2. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 50 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7513261 -- Show included taxa

Dondale, C. D. (1966). The spider fauna (Araneida) of deciduous orchards in the Australian Capital Territory. Australian Journal of Zoology 14(6): 1157-1192. doi: 10.1071/ZO9661157 -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1887a). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Zweiter Theil [Lieferung 35-36]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 153-232, pl. 12-20. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.121660 -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1872a). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 3-7]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 105-368, pl. 8-28. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.121660 -- Show included taxa

Okuma, C. (1987). A revision of the Australasian species of the genus Tetragnatha (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Esakia 25: 37-96. -- Show included taxa

Okuma, C. & Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (1988). Tetragnatha (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) in the collection of the Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria with a description of a new species. Phytophylactica 20: 219-232. -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1983). Spiders of the families Theridiidae, Tetragnathidae and Araneidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Aldabra atoll. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 77(3): 217-291. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1983.tb00099.x -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (1978). Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from the Seychelle islands, with notes on taxonomy. Annales Zoologici Fennici 15: 99-126. -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (2003). Tetragnathid spiders of Seychelles (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Phelsuma 11: 13-28. -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (2010). Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1898d). Etudes arachnologiques. 29e Mémoire. XLVI. Arachnides recueillis en 1895 par M. le Dr A. Brauer (de l'Université de Marburg) aux îles Séchelles. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 66: 370-388. -- 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
2023-01-27	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2023a
2023-01-27	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020t
2019-11-14	New taxonomic reference entry	Bosmans et al., 2019b
2019-11-14	Species distribution update	Bosmans et al., 2019b	Old value
2018-03-14	New taxonomic reference entry	Keyserling, 1887a
2018-03-14	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Tetragnatha protensa Walckenaer, 1841
2018-03-14	Species distribution update	Saaristo, 2003	Old value