Taxon details


Argyrodes elevatus Taczanowski, 1873

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-06-27
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007034]
  • Distribution: USA to Argentina, Galapagos Is.
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Conopistha pickeli Mello-Leitão, 1943, (00580); 1 f (destroyed by the fire 2018)
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Conopistha friburgensis Mello-Leitão, 1943, (18333); 1 f (destroyed by the fire 2018)
  • Syntype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Argyrodes fur Bösenberg & Strand, 1906, 3 f (2983-115)
Taxonomic references
Argyrodes elevatus Taczanowski, 1873: 120, pl. 5, f. 12 (Df).
Argyrodes concinna O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880b: 322, pl. 28, f. 2 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058089].
Argyrodes jucunda O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880b: 326, pl. 18, f. 6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058095].
Argyrodes lugens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880b: 327, pl. 28, f. 2a-c (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058096].
Argyrodes elevatus Keyserling, 1884a: 188, pl. 9, f. 112 (f).
Argyrodes jucunda Keyserling, 1884a: 190, pl. 9, f. 113 (f).
Argyrodes piraticum McCook, 1890: 388 (no description, nomen nudum) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054491].
Argyrodes jucunda F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902a: 406, pl. 38, f. 14 (f).
Argyrodes decorus Banks, 1908: 208 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058090].
Argyrodes biclavis Chamberlin, 1924a: 5, pl. 1, f. 2-5 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058086].
Argyrodes cingulatus Petrunkevitch, 1925a: 98, f. 3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058088].
Argyrodes falcatus Badcock, 1932: 9, f. 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058092].
Argyrodes rotundus Caporiacco, 1938b: 264 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058101].
Conopistha elongata Bryant, 1940: 306, f. 68-69, 75-76 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058091].
Conopistha argentinus Mello-Leitão, 1941d: 143, f. 39 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058084].
Conopistha nephilae Bryant, 1942a: 339, f. 15, 26 (m; misidentified per Exline & Levi, 1962: 134).
Conopistha friburgensis Mello-Leitão, 1943b: 259 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058093].
Conopistha pickeli Mello-Leitão, 1943b: 259 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058100].
Microcephalus fur Restrepo, 1944: 393, f. 1-7 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058094].
Conopistha argyrodes nephilae Exline, 1945a: 510, f. 1-17 (mf; misidentified per Exline & Levi, 1962: 134).
Rhomphaea simplex Caporiacco, 1954: 72, f. 10, 10a (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058103].
Conopistha argyrodes nephilae Kraus, 1955b: 15, f. 27-29 (mf; misidentified per Exline & Levi, 1962: 134).
Conopistha jucunda Kritscher, 1957: 271, f. 30 (Dm).
Argyrodes elevatus Levi & Levi, 1962: 63, 135, f. 302-303 (Dm, S of Chrysso pulcherrima, revalidated by Levi, 1967b: 26).
Argyrodes elevatus Exline & Levi, 1962: 134, f. 128-132, 154 (mf, removed from S of Conopistha nephilae, rejecting Exline, 1945a: 510, S of Argyrodes argentinus, A. biclavis, A. decorus, A. falcatus, A. piraticum [nomen nudum], A. rotundus, A. simplex, Conopistha cingulatus, C. concinna, C. elongata, C. jucunda and C. lugens, all mentioned Conopistha removed from S of C. nephilae, contra Bryant, 1942a: 339 and Exline, 1945a: 510).
Argyrodes elevatus Levi, 1967b: 32 (S of Argyrodes friburgensis and A. pickeli).
Argyrodes elevatus Levi, 1972b: 534 (S of Microcephalus fur).
Argyrodes elevatus Coddington, 1990: 17, f. 88 (m).
Argyrodes elevatus Agnarsson, Coddington & Knoflach, 2007: 354, f. 59-60, 64 (m).
References

Agnarsson, I., Coddington, J. A. & Knoflach, B. (2007). Morphology and evolution of cobweb spider male genitalia (Araneae, Theridiidae). Journal of Arachnology 35(2): 334-395. doi:10.1636/SH-06-36.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Badcock, H. D. (1932). Reports of an expedition to Paraguay and Brazil in 1926–7, supported by the Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund and the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. Arachnida from the Paraguayan Chaco. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 38(257): 1-48. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1932.tb00987.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Banks, N. (1908). New species of Theridiidae. The Canadian Entomologist 40(6): 205-208. doi:10.4039/Ent40205-6 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bryant, E. B. (1940). Cuban spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 86: 247-532. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bryant, E. B. (1942a). Notes on the spiders of the Virgin Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 89: 317-366. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1938b). Aracnidi del Messico, di Guatemala e Honduras britannico. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 77: 251-282. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1954). Araignées de la Guyane Française du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Commentationes Pontificia Academia Scientiarum 16: 45-193. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. (1924a). Descriptions of new American and Chinese spiders, with notes on other Chinese species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 63(13): 1-38. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Coddington, J. A. (1990). Ontogeny and homology in the male palpus of orb-weaving spiders and their relatives, with comments on phylogeny (Araneoclada: Araneoidea, Deinopoidea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 496: 1-52. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Exline, H. (1945a). Spiders of the genus Conopistha (Theridiidae, Conopisthinae) from northwestern Peru and Ecuador. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 38(4): 505-528. doi:10.1093/aesa/38.4.505 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Exline, H. & Levi, H. W. (1962). American spiders of the genus Argyrodes (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 127: 75-204. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1884a). Die Spinnen Amerikas II. Theridiidae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 1, 1-222. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kraus, O. (1955b). Spinnen aus El Salvador (Arachnoidea, Araneae). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 493: 1-112. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kritscher, E. (1957). Bisher unbekannt gebliebene Araneen-Männchen und -Weibchen des Wiener Naturhistorischen Museums (1. Teil). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 61: 254-272. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1967b). Habitat observations, records, and new South American theridiid spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 136: 21-38. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1972b). Taxonomic-nomenclatural notes on misplaced theridiid spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae), with observations on Anelosimus. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 91(4): 533-538. doi:10.2307/3225482 download pdf -- Show included taxa

McCook, H. C. (1890). American spiders and their spinningwork. Philadelphia 2, 1-480. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1941d). Las arañas de Córdoba, La Rioja, Catamarca, Tucumán, Salta y Jujuy colectadas por los Profesores Birabén. Revista del Museo de La Plata (N.S., Zool.) 2: 99-198. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1943b). Araneologica varia brasiliana. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 15: 255-265. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1925a). Arachnida from Panama. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 27: 51-248. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1880b). On some new and little known spiders of the genus Argyrodes. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 48(2): 320-344, pl. 28-30. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1880.tb06563.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1902a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 313-424. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Restrepo, A. (1944). La araña ladrona Microcephalus Fur [sic] n. sp.?: Un interesante caso biojurídico. Universidad Antioquia 67-68: 393-408. [reprinted in Daniel, H., 1955, Algunos aspectos de la lucha biologica, Revista Facultad nacional de Agronomia, Medellín 16(48): 157-168] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Taczanowski, L. (1873). Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 9: 113-150, 261-286. [pdf includes Taczanowski, 1872] download pdf -- Show included taxa

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