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

Tetragnatha aetherea (Simon, 1895)

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Described: j

Distribution: Venezuela

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Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France jm (10128) - (Castanheira & Baptista, 2021a)

Taxonomic References

Prionolaema aetherea Simon, 1894a: 725 (nomen nudum) Original description

Prionolaema aetherea Simon, 1895g: 150 (Dj)

Tetragnatha aetherea Dimitrov, Álvarez-Padilla & Hormiga, 2008: 53, f. 2A-B (j, T from Prionolaema)

Tetragnatha aetherea Castanheira & Baptista, 2021a: 654 (species inquirenda)

Tetragnatha aetherea Sherwood, 2024b: 212 (immature, species inquirenda)

References

Castanheira, P. de S. & Baptista, R. L. C. (2021a). Tailed species of the orb-weaving spider genus Tetragnatha (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) in the Neotropical region. Arachnology 18(7): 649-655. doi: 10.13156/arac.2020.18.7.649 -- Show included taxa

Dimitrov, Di., Álvarez-Padilla, F. & Hormiga, G. (2008). Until dirt do us apart: on the unremarkable palp morphology of the spider Sternospina concretipalpis Schmidt & Krause, 1993, with comments on the genus Prionolaema Simon, 1894 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Zootaxa 1698: 49-56. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.1698.1.3 -- 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

Simon, E. (1894a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 489-760. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1895g). Etudes arachnologiques. 26e. XLI. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 64: 131-160. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-01-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood, 2024b
2021-03-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Castanheira & Baptista, 2021a