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Genus: Pireneitega Kishida, 1955 | Family: Agelenidae C. L. Koch, 1837

Pireneitega segestriformis (Dufour, 1820)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023025

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Described:

Distribution: Spain, Andorra, France

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Type Repository Provide information

Neotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m (1991; not traceable, invalid per Déjean & Danflous, 2024; N.B.: 'paraneotypes' are not valid types) - (de Blauwe, 1973a)
Lectotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f (1917.1.4.211) of Coelotes atramentarius - (Déjean & Danflous, 2024)

Taxonomic References

Drassus segestriformis Dufour, 1820d: 297, pl. 95, f. 1 (Dmf) Original description

Clubiona ferox nigra Walckenaer, 1837: 607 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063531]

Drassus segestriformis Dufour, 1858: 260, pl. 6, f. 2 (mf)

Coelotes roscidus L. Koch, 1868: 40, pl. 2, f. 19 (f; misidentified per Simon, 1937: 1035)

Coelotes atramentarius Simon, 1875a: 46 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062090]

Coelotes leveillei Simon, 1876c: 92 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062091]

Amaurobius obesus Kulczyński, 1906b: 425, pl. 14, f. 25, pl. 15, f. 37, 53, 68 (m; misidentified per Simon, 1937: 1035)

Amaurobius leveillei Kulczyński, 1906b: 426, pl. 15, f. 38, 54, 67 (m)

Amaurobius atramentarius Kulczyński, 1906b: 430, pl. 14, f. 22 (f)

Amaurobius dubius Kulczyński, 1906b: 432, pl. 15, f. 19 (Df; new name for Coelotes roscidus sensu L. Koch, 1868) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062092]

Coelotes segestriformis Simon, 1937: 985, 988, 1034, f. 1510, 1518 (mf, S of Amaurobius atramentarius, A. dubius and A. leveillei)

Clubiona ferox nigra Roewer, 1955c: 1446 (nicht zu deuten = nomen dubium)

Coelotes segestriformis de Blauwe, 1973a: 95, f. 85-89 (mf, S of Coelotes garibaldii, revalidated by Brignoli, 1977f: 17, f. 90-91 see Pireneitega garibaldii)

Coelotes segestriformis Brignoli, 1978e: 280, f. 12-14 (mf)

Paracoelotes segestriformis Brignoli, 1982b: 349 (T from Coelotes)

Pireneitega segestriformis Wang & Jäger, 2007: 46 (T from Paracoelotes)

Pireneitega segestriformis Kovblyuk et al., 2013a: 68, f. 7-11, 27, 31, 35, 39 (mf)

Pireneitega segestriformis Breitling, 2020: 339, f. 2F (f)

Pireneitega segestriformis Déjean & Danflous, 2024: 35, f. 2A, D, 4A-C, 7A, 10C (mf, S of Amaurobius ferox niger, removed from S of A. ferox, rejecting Bonnet, 1955: 286)

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. (2020). South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18(4): 333-362. doi: 10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.333 -- Show included taxa

Brignoli, P. M. (1978e). Quelques notes sur les Agelenidae, Hahniidae, Oxyopidae et Pisauridae de France et d'Espagne (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 85(2): 265-294. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.82231 -- 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

Dufour, L. (1820d). Observations générales sur les arachnides et description de quelques espèces nouvelles ou peu connues. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques 6: 289-306. -- Show included taxa

Dufour, L. (1858). Sur le Drassus segestriformis. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (3) 6: 255-261. -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1868). Die Arachnidengattungen Amaurobius, Coelotes and Cybaeus. Abhandlungen der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft zu Nürnberg 4: 1-52. -- Show included taxa

Kovblyuk, M. M., Kastrygina, Z. A., Marusik, Y. M. & Ponomarev, A. V. (2013a). The spider genus Pireneitega Kishida, 1955 in the Caucasus (Aranei: Agelenidae: Coelotinae). Arthropoda Selecta 22(1): 59-73. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.22.1.06 -- Show included taxa

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

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. -- 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. (1876c). Etudes arachnologiques. 4e mémoire. VIII. Description d'un Coelotes noveau pour la faune française. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (5) 6: 92. -- 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

Walckenaer, C. A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Tome premier. Roret, Paris, 682 pp., pl. 1-15. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.61095 [[plates in second pdf]] -- 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
2025-01-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Roewer, 1955c
2025-01-09	Species synonymy	Déjean & Danflous, 2024		Pireneitega ferox nigra synonymized with Pireneitega segestriformis
2025-01-09	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon		Old value
2020-03-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Breitling, 2020