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Genus: Metellina Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941 | Family: Tetragnathidae Menge, 1866

Metellina minima Denis, 1953

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013883

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Described:

Distribution: Canary Is.

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Type Repository Provide information

It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Denis can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -
Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Meta canariensis Schmidt, 1975, 1 m, 1 f (28846-122) -
Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Meta ramblae Schmidt, 1975, 1 f (28926-122) -

Taxonomic References

Meta obscura minima Denis, 1953c: 6 (Df) Original description

Meta obscura Denis, 1953c: 4, f. 4 (f; misidentified per Denis, 1962a: 82)

Meta minima Denis, 1962a: 82 (elevated from subspecies)

Meta canariensis Schmidt, 1975a: 226, f. 6-7 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060522]

Meta ramblae Schmidt, 1975a: 227, f. 8-9 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060524]

Meta minima Wunderlich, 1987a: 132 (S of Meta canariensis and M. ramblae)

Meta minima Wunderlich, 1992a: 363, f. 330-332 (mf)

Metellina minima Wunderlich, 2008a: 94, f. 17 (m, T from Meta)

Metellina minima Marusik & Larsen, 2018: 211 (T from Meta confirmed)

References

Denis, J. (1953c). Araignées recueillies à Tenerife (Iles Canaries). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 29(39): 1-8. -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1962a). Les araignées de l'archipel de Madère (Mission du Professeur Vandel). Publicações do Instituto Zoologia Doutor Augusto Nobre 79: 9-118, pl. 1-12. -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. & Larsen, N. (2018). A synopsis of African Metellina (Aranei, Tetragnathidae, Metainae) with description of a new species from South Africa. Vestnik Zoologii 52(3): 205-216. doi: 10.2478/vzoo-2018-0021 -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1975a). Spinnen von Gomera. Zoologische Beiträge (N.F.) 21(2): 219-231. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1987a). Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen. Triops Langen, 435 pp. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1992a). Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie und Evolution. Beiträge zur Araneologie 1: 1-619. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2008a). Descriptions of fossil spider (Araneae) taxa mainly in Baltic amber, as well as on certain related extant taxa. Beiträge zur Araneologie 5: 44-139, 803-804, 813-818. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2024-04-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Denis, 1953c
2018-07-27	New taxonomic reference entry	Marusik & Larsen, 2018
2018-07-27	Species transferred to new genus	Marusik & Larsen, 2018	Species transferred from Meta to Metellina