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Genus: Crustulina Menge, 1868 | Family: Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

Crustulina altera Gertsch & Archer, 1942

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Described:

Distribution: USA, Jamaica

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA m - (Gertsch & Archer, 1942)
Paratype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA mm ff - (Gertsch & Archer, 1942)
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) 1m 1f (9909412-115) (formerly coll. Archer) - (Gertsch & Archer, 1942)
Allotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA f - (Gertsch & Archer, 1942)

Taxonomic References

Steatoda guttata Emerton, 1882: 20, pl. 4, f. 2 (mf; misidentified per Gertsch & Archer, 1942: 1)

Crustulina sticta Keyserling, 1886b: 37, pl. 12, f. 154 (mf; misidentified per Levi, 1957b: 372)

Crustulina altera Gertsch & Archer, 1942: 1, f. 9 (Dmf) Original description

Crustulina altera Kaston, 1948: 74, f. 30-33, 2119 (mf)

Crustulina altera Levi, 1957b: 372, f. 4-6, 8-10 (mf)

Crustulina altera Levi & Levi, 1962: 60, f. 272-274 (m)

Crustulina altera Levi & Randolph, 1975: 37, f. 4-5 (m)

Crustulina altera Roth, 1982: 47-8, f. 4-5 (m)

Crustulina altera Roth, 1985: B43-7, f. 4-5 (m)

Crustulina altera Roth, 1994: 181, f. 5 (m)

References

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

Gertsch, W. J. & Archer, A. F. (1942). Descriptions of new American Theridiidae. American Museum Novitates 1171: 1-16. -- 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

Keyserling, E. (1886b). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Theridiidae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 2, 1-295. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.64832 -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1957b). The spider genera Crustulina and Steatoda in North America, Central America, and the West Indies (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 117: 367-424. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. & Levi, L. R. (1962). The genera of the spider family Theridiidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 127(1): 1-71, pl. 1-14. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. & Randolph, D. E. (1975). A key and checklist of American spiders of the family Theridiidae north of Mexico (Araneae). Journal of Arachnology 3: 31-51. -- Show included taxa

Roth, V. D. (1982). Handbook for spider identification. Published by the author Portal, Arizona, 128 pp. -- Show included taxa

Roth, V. D. (1985). Spider genera of North America. American Arachnological Society Gainesville. -- Show included taxa

Roth, V. D. (1994). Spider Genera of North America, with Keys to Families and Genera, and a Guide to Literature, third edition. American Arachnological Society Gainesville, 203 pp. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2022-12-07	Species distribution update		Old value
2020-06-06	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon	Levi, 1957b	Old value
2020-06-06	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon	Levi, 1957b	Old value