Taxon details

Family: Tetragnathidae / Genus: Metellina

Metellina villiersi (Denis, 1955)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2018-07-27
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013904]
  • Distribution: Guinea
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Type deposit 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
Taxonomic references
Meta villiersi Denis, 1955c: 1031, f. 8-1O (Dmf).
Metellina villiersi Marusik & Larsen, 2018: 212 (T from Meta).
References

Denis, J. (1955c). Speologica africana: quelques araignées cavernicoles de Guinée française. Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire 17(A): 1024-1033. download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- 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 Detail
2018-07-27 New taxonomic reference entry Marusik & Larsen, 2018 n/a
2018-07-27 Species transferred to new genus Marusik & Larsen, 2018 Species transferred from Meta to Metellina