Pireneitega pyrenaea (Simon, 1870)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023024

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Described:

Distribution: Spain, France


Type Repository Provide information
  • Lectotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f (1917.1.4.315, lecotypes by de Blauwe, 1973a are invalid) - (Déjean & Danflous, 2024)
  • Lectotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f (1917.1.4.310) of Coelotes obesus - (Déjean & Danflous, 2024)
Taxonomic References
Coelotes pyrenaeus Simon, 1870b: 293 (Dm) Original description
Coelotes pyrenaeus Simon, 1873a: 169, p. 1, f. 22 (m)
Coelotes obesus Simon, 1875a: 44 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022829]
Coelotes pyrenaeus Simon, 1875a: 40, pl. 5, f. 12 (m, Df)
Amaurobius obesus Kulczyński, 1906b: 424, pl. 14, f. 1 (f)
Amaurobius pyrenaeus Kulczyński, 1906b: 428, pl. 14, f. 4 (f)
Coelotes pyrenaeus Simon, 1937: 985, 988, 1034, f. 1509, 1517 (mf, S of Coelotes obesus)
Coelotes pyrenaeus de Blauwe, 1973a: 89, f. 79-82 (mf)
Paracoelotes pyrenaeus Brignoli, 1982b: 349 (T from Coelotes)
Pireneitega pyrenaea Wang & Jäger, 2007: 46 (T from Paracoelotes)
Pireneitega pyrenaea Breitling et al., 2015: 69 (S of Coelotes obesus confirmed)
Pireneitega pyrenaea Déjean & Danflous, 2024: 35, f. 2B, E, 5A-C, 7B (mf)
References

Blauwe, R. de (1973a). Révision de la famille des Agelenidae (Araneae) de la région méditerranéenne. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 49(2): 1-111. -- Show included taxa

Breitling, R., Lemke, M., Bauer, T., Hohner, M., Grabolle, A. & Blick, T. (2015). Phantom spiders: notes on dubious spider species from Europe. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 50: 65-80. doi: 10.5431/aramit5010 -- Show included taxa

Brignoli, P. M. (1982b). On a few spiders from China (Araneae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 5(8): 344-351. -- Show included taxa

Déjean, S. & Danflous, S. (2024). Révision du genre Pireneitega en France et dans les Pyrénées et description de P. occitanica sp. nov. (Araneae, Agelenidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 11: 28-51. -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1906b). Fragmenta arachnologica. VII. Bulletin International de l'Academie des Sciences de Cracovie 1906: 417-476. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1870b). Aranéides nouveaux ou peu connus du midi de l'Europe. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège (2) 3: 271-358. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1873a). Aranéides nouveaux ou peu connus du midi de l'Europe. (2e mémoire). Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège (2) 5(8): 1-174, pl. 1-3. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1875a). Les Arachnides de France. Tome seconde. Contenant les familles des Urocteidae, Agelenidae, Thomisidae et Sparassidae. Roret, Paris, 360 pp., pl. 4-8. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1937). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 5e et derniére partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 979-1298. -- Show included taxa

Wang, X. P. & Jäger, P. (2007). A revision of some spiders of the subfamily Coelotinae F. O. Pickard-Cambridge 1898 from China: transfers, synonymies, and new species (Arachnida, Araneae, Amaurobiidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 87: 23-49. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-01-09 New taxonomic reference entry Déjean & Danflous, 2024
2015-10-20 New taxonomic reference entry Breitling et al., 2015
2015-10-20 Species synonymy Breitling et al., 2015 Pireneitega obesa synonymized with Pireneitega pyrenaea

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