Taxon details
Metellina mengei (Blackwall, 1869)
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2024-04-15
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013917]
- Distribution: Europe to Caucasus, Iran, Russia (Europe to Altai)
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Meta segmentata mengei Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1891: 139.
Meta segmentata mengei Kulczyński, 1899: 389, pl. 8, f. 78 (f).
Meta mengei Bösenberg, 1901: 49, pl. 3, f. 40 (mf).
Meta segmentata mengei Fedotov, 1912a: 78, f. 27-28 (mf).
Meta reticulata mengei Wiehle, 1931: 123, f. 198-201 (mf).
Meta reticulata mengei Drensky, 1943: 247, f. 30 (mf).
Meta segmentata mengei Locket & Millidge, 1953: 117, f. 76C, 77B, E (mf).
Meta mengei Chrysanthus, 1953: 160, f. 1b-d, 2b, d-e, 3a-b (mf, elevated from subspecies of Meta reticulata = segmentata).
Meta mengei Levi & Field, 1954: 466 (S of Epeira peckhami; rejected by Levi, 1980a: 36, see Metellina curtisi).
Meta mengei Chrysanthus, 1955c: 59, f. 2A-D (m).
Meta segmentata mengei Zamaraev, 1964: 352, f. 15B, 16B, 17 (mf).
Meta mengei Wiehle, 1967b: 191, f. 33-34 (m).
Meta segmentata mengei Loksa, 1972: 70, f. 60D-F (mf).
Meta mengei Locket, Millidge & Merrett, 1974: 64, f. 37A, C (mf).
Meta mengei Palmgren, 1974a: 39, f. 17a-g (mf).
Meta mengei Punda, 1975b: 42, f. 79, 81 (mf).
Metellina mengei Levi, 1980a: 34, f. 105-107 (mf, T from Meta).
Meta mengei Roberts, 1985: 202, f. 90b, g, 91b (mf).
Metellina mengei Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 64, f. 140 (mf).
Meta mengei Roberts, 1995: 308, f. (mf).
Metallina mengei Agnarsson, 1996: 59, f. 45A-C (mf).
Metellina mengei Bellmann, 1997: 98, f. (mf).
Meta mengei Roberts, 1998: 322, f. (mf).
Metellina mengei Trotta, 2005: 174, f. 430, 433 (mf).
Metellina mengei Almquist, 2006: 113, f. 132a-h (mf).
Meta mengei Wunderlich, 2011: 206, f. 5, 5a (mf).
Metellina mengei Marusik, Özkütük & Kunt, 2012: 70, f. 1, 3 (m).
Metellina mengei Kallal & Hormiga, 2018a: 408, f. 3B (m).
Metellina mengei Morano, 2020: 105, f. 8, 12-13 (mf).
Agnarsson, I. (1996). Íslenskar köngulær. Fjölrit Náttúrufræðistofnunar 31: 1-175. 
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Almquist, S. (2006). Swedish Araneae, part 1 – families Atypidae to Hahniidae (Linyphiidae excluded). Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 62(2005): 1-284. [publ. in 2006 per Jonsson, in litt.] -- Show included taxa
Bellmann, H. (1997). Kosmos-Atlas Spinnentiere Europas. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart, 304 pp. -- Show included taxa
Blackwall, J. (1869). Description of a new species of Epeira. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 4(24): 398-400. doi:10.1080/00222936908696086 -- Show included taxa
Bösenberg, W. (1901). Die Spinnen Deutschlands. I. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14(1): 1-96, Pl. 1-8. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6508 -- Show included taxa
Chrysanthus, P. (1953). Is Meta mengei Blackwall a variety of Meta segmentata (Clerck)? (Aranei-Argiopidae). Zoologische Mededelingen 32: 155-163. -- Show included taxa
Chrysanthus, P. (1955c). On defectively regenerated palps in male spiders. Natuurhistorisch Maandblad 44: 56-59. -- Show included taxa
Chyzer, C. & Kulczyński, W. (1891). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus I. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae, Budapest, 170 pp., 4 Pls. -- Show included taxa
Drensky, P. (1943). Die Spinnenfauna Bulgariens. VI. Unterordnung Arachnomorphae, II Gruppe Trionichia, Familie Euetrioidae. Bulletin des Institutions Royales d'Histoire Naturelle à Sophia 16: 219-254. -- Show included taxa
Fedotov, D. (1912a). Materialy k faounié paukow Twerskoï gouberny. Berichte der Biologischen Süßwasserstation der Kaiserlichen Naturforschergesellschaft zu St. Petersburg 3: 53-134. -- Show included taxa
Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. -- Show included taxa
Kallal, R. J. & Hormiga, G. (2018a). An expanded molecular phylogeny of metaine spiders (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) with description of new taxa from Taiwan and the Philippines. Invertebrate Systematics 32(2): 400-422. doi:10.1071/IS17058 -- Show included taxa
Kulczyński, W. (1899). Arachnoidea opera Rev. E. Schmitz collecta in insulis Maderianis et in insulis Selvages dictis. Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzen Wydzialu Matematyczno Przyrodniczego Akademji Umiejetnosci, Krakow 36: 319-461. -- Show included taxa
Levi, H. W. (1980a). The orb-weaver genus Mecynogea, the subfamily Metinae and the genera Pachygnatha, Glenognatha and Azilia of the subfamily Tetragnathinae north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 149: 1-74. -- Show included taxa
Levi, H. W. & Field, H. M. (1954). The spiders of Wisconsin. American Midland Naturalist 51: 440-467. -- Show included taxa
Locket, G. H. & Millidge, A. F. (1953). British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp. -- Show included taxa
Locket, G. H., Millidge, A. F. & Merrett, P. (1974). British Spiders, Volume III. Ray Society, London, 315 pp. -- Show included taxa
Loksa, I. (1972). Araneae II. Fauna Hungariae 109: 1-112. -- Show included taxa
Marusik, Y. M., Özkütük, R. S. & Kunt, K. B. (2012). Spiders (Araneae) new to the fauna of Turkey. 10. Two new species records of Tetragnathidae. Anadolu University Journal of Science and Technology, C 2(2): 69-73. -- Show included taxa
Morano, E. (2020). La familia Tetragnathidae Menge, 1866 (Araneae) en el área ibero-balear. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 37: 101-136. -- Show included taxa
Palmgren, P. (1974a). Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands und Ostfennoskandiens. IV. Argiopidae, Tetragnathidae und Mimetidae. Fauna Fennica 24: 1-70. -- Show included taxa
Punda, H. (1975b). Pająki Borów Sosnowych. Polska Akad. Nauk, 91 pp. -- Show included taxa
Roberts, M. J. (1985). The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1: Atypidae to Theridiosomatidae. Harley Books, Colchester, England, 229 pp. -- Show included taxa
Roberts, M. J. (1995). Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp. -- Show included taxa
Roberts, M. J. (1998). Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp. -- Show included taxa
Trotta, A. (2005). Introduzione al ragni italiani (Arachnida Araneae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 83: 3-178. doi:10.4081/memorieSEI.2004.3 -- Show included taxa
Wiehle, H. (1931). Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea. 27. Familie. Araneidae. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 23: 47-136. -- Show included taxa
Wiehle, H. (1967b). Meta, – eine semientelegyne Gattung der Araneae (Arach.). Senckenbergiana Biologica 48(3): 183-196. -- Show included taxa
Wunderlich, J. (2011). Extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 6: 1-640. -- Show included taxa
Zamaraev, V. N. (1964). Opredelitel vidov paukov semeistva Araneidae. Uchenye Zapiski Kalininskogo Gosudarstvennogo Pedagogicheskogo Instituta 31: 350-368. -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-04 | New taxonomic reference entry | Morano, 2020 | n/a |
| 2018-04-09 | New taxonomic reference entry | Kallal & Hormiga, 2018a | n/a |
| 2016-12-14 | New taxonomic reference entry | Marusik, Özkütük & Kunt, 2012 | n/a |
| 2014-11-25 | Species updated | Error corrected (Old value) | |
| 2014-09-08 | Species distribution update | Marusik et al., 2014a | n/a (Old value) |