Taxon details

Family: Pisauridae / Genus: Tetragonophthalma

Tetragonophthalma vulpina (Simon, 1898)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019790]
  • Distribution: West, Central Africa
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Type deposit provide information
  • It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France
  • Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium (database excerpt, Feb. 2019); Tetragonophthalma balsaci Blandin, 1976 (68016)
  • Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium (database excerpt, Feb. 2019); Tetragonophthalma pelengea Roewer, 1955 (119705)
  • Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium (database excerpt, Feb. 2019); Tetragonophthalma wittei Roewer, 1955 (119707)
  • Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Tetragonophthalma guentheri Roewer, 1955, (13832)
Taxonomic references
Phalaea vulpina Simon, 1898f: 14 (Dmf).
Phalaea crassa Thorell, 1899: 80 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057716].
Phalaea ferox Pocock, 1900g: 863, pl. 55, f. 6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057717].
Phalaea thomensis Simon, 1909c: 388 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057721].
Tetragonophthalma guentheri Roewer, 1955b: 172, f. 69 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057718].
Tetragonophthalma pelengea Roewer, 1955b: 179, f. 70a-d (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057720].
Tetragonophthalma wittei Roewer, 1955b: 181, f. 71a-f (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057722].
Tetragonophthalma guentheri Blandin, 1974a: 314, f. 14 (f).
Tetragonophthalma pelengea Blandin, 1974a: 315, f. 18 (m).
Tetragonophthalma vulpina Blandin, 1976b: 591, f. 4 (f).
Tetragonophthalma crassa Blandin, 1976b: 592, f. 8-11, 16, 24a (f, S of Tetragonophthalma ferox).
Tetragonophthalma guentheri Blandin, 1976b: 594, f. 1-3, 12-13, 24b (f, Dm).
Tetragonophthalma wittei Blandin, 1976b: 595, f. 5, 17 (mf).
Tetragonophthalma pelengea Blandin, 1976b: 595, f. 6 (f).
Tetragonophthalma lecordieri Blandin, 1976b: 599, f. 7, 14-15, 20, 24c (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057719].
Tetragonophthalma balsaci Blandin, 1976b: 602, f. 18-19, 21-23, 24d (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057715].
Tetragonophthalma guentheri Blandin, 1978c: 26, f. 6i (f).
Tetragonophthalma balsaci Blandin, 1978c: 26, f. 6j (f).
Tetragonophthalma crassa Blandin, 1978c: 26, f. 6k (f).
Tetragonophthalma lecordieri Blandin, 1978c: 26, f. 6l (f).
Tetragonophthalma vulpina Sierwald, 1997: 385, f. 23-24, 27-30 (mf, S of Tetragonophthalma balsaci, T. crassa, T. guentheri, T. lecordieri, T. pelengea, T. thomensis and T. wittei).
References

Blandin, P. (1974a). Etudes sur les Pisauridae africaines I. Le problème de la définition des genres Perenethis L. Koch, 1878, Tetragonophthalma Karsch, 1878, Chiasmopes Pavesi, 1883 et Maypacius Simon, 1898 (Araneae – Pisauridae – Pisaurinae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 81(1): 305-318. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.76005 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Blandin, P. (1976b). Etudes sur les Pisauridae africaines V. Mise au point sur les espèces du genre Tetragonophthalma Karsch, 1878 (Araneae - Pisauridae - Pisaurinae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 90(3): 588-606. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Blandin, P. (1978c). Le problème de l'espèce chez les araignées. In: Les problèmes de l'espèce dans le règne animal. Paris 2, 13-56. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1900g). On the scorpions, pedipalps and spiders from tropical West-Africa, represented in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 67(4, 1899): 833-885, pl. 55-58. [published in April 1900, after Duncan, 1937] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1955b). Araneae Lycosaeformia I. (Agelenidae, Hahniidae, Pisauridae) mit Berücksichtigung aller Arten der äthiopischen Region. Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba, Mission G. F. de Witte 30: 1-420. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sierwald, P. (1997). Phylogenetic analysis of pisaurine nursery web spiders, with revisions of Tetragonophthalma and Perenethis (Araneae, Lycosoidea, Pisauridae). Journal of Arachnology 25: 361-407. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1898f). Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux des familles des Agelenidae, Pisauridae, Lycosidae et Oxyopidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 42: 5-34. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1909c). Arachnides. Première partie. In: Voyage de M. Maurice de Rothschild en Ethiopie et dans l'Afrique orientale anglaise (1904-1906). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 53, 29-43. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1899). Araneae Camerunenses (Africae occidentalis) quas anno 1891 collegerunt Cel. Dr Y. Sjöstedt aliique. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 25(IV, 1): 1-105. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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