Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Leviellus

Leviellus caspicus (Simon, 1889)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-08-02
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017169]
  • Distribution: Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; m (the mentioned 2f cannot be syntypes, because only the m was included in the original description) (Levi, 1974a)
Taxonomic references
Zilla caspica Simon, 1889l: 382 (Dm).
Zygiella caspica Levi, 1974a: 280, f. 70-75 (m, Df).
Leviellus caspica Wunderlich, 2004f: 928 (T from Zygiella).
Leviellus caspicus Mikhailov, 2013b: 110 (emended specific epithet).
Leviellus caspicus Seropian, Otto & Bulbulashvili, 2023: 154, f. 20-26, 29-35, Suppl.: 7 f. (mf).
References

Levi, H. W. (1974a). The orb-weaver genus Zygiella (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 146(5): 267-290. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mikhailov, K. G. (2013b). The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Seropian, A., Otto, S. & Bulbulashvili, N. (2023). Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arthropoda, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the CaBOL project. Part I. Caucasiana 2: 143-159 & Suppl. doi:10.3897/caucasiana.2.e107049 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1889l). Arachnidae transcaspicae ab ill. Dr. G. Radde, Dr. A. Walter et A. Conchin inventae (annis 1886-1887). Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 39: 373-386. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2004f). The fossil spiders (Araneae) of the families Tetragnathidae and Zygiellidae n. stat. in Baltic and Dominican amber, with notes on higher extant and fossil taxa. Beiträge zur Araneologie 3: 899-955. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-08-02 New taxonomic reference entry Seropian, Otto & Bulbulashvili, 2023 n/a
2023-08-02 Species distribution update Seropian, Otto & Bulbulashvili, 2023 n/a (Old value)
2016-01-07 Species distribution update Zamani et al., 2015 n/a (Old value)
2015-08-04 Species updated Mikhailov, 2013b Species epithet corrected (Old value)
2015-08-04 New taxonomic reference entry Mikhailov, 2013b n/a