Parazygiella dispar (Kulczyński, 1885)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017170

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Described:

Distribution: Russia (Far East), Japan, North America

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Taxonomic References
Zilla montana Emerton, 1884: 323, pl. 34, f. 14, pl. 37, f. 22-23, 26, 28 (mf; misidentified sensu Levi, 1974a: 278)
Zilla dispar Kulczyński, 1885: 24, pl. 9, f. 7 (Dmf) Original description
Zilla montana McCook, 1894: 239, pl. 18, f. 3-4 (mf; misidentified sensu Levi, 1974a: 278)
Zilla montana Emerton, 1902: 185, f. 435a (m; misidentified sensu Levi, 1974a: 278)
Aranea dispar Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 238
Zilla montana Emerton, 1909: 201, pl. 5, f. 4b (f; misidentified sensu Levi, 1974a: 278)
Zilla montana Comstock, 1940: 474, f. 471c, 472c (mf; misidentified sensu Levi, 1974a: 278)
Zygiella montana Levi & Field, 1954: 452, f. 36-37 (mf; misidentified sensu Levi, 1974a: 278)
Zygiella dispar Gertsch, 1964a: 7, f. 7-10 (mf)
Zygiella dispar Levi, 1974a: 278, f. 33-37, 44, 48 (mf, S of Zygiella nearctica, revalidated by Dondale et al., 2003: 303; f. 32, 38-43, 45-47 see Zygiella nearctica)
Zygiella montana Chikuni, 1989b: 77, f. 44 (mf; misidentified per Tanikawa, 2002: 105)
Zygiella dispar Levi, 2002: 541, f. 106-107 (f)
Zygiella dispar Tanikawa, 2002: 105, f. 1-6 (mf)
Zygiella dispar Dondale et al., 2003: 303, f. 711-718 (mf)
Parazygiella dispar Wunderlich, 2004f: 928 (T from Zygiella)
Parazygiella disper Tanikawa, 2007c: 55, f. 83-85, 483-484 (mf, lapsus)
Parazygiella dispar Tanikawa, 2009: 433, f. 65-66 (mf)
Parazygiella dispar Marusik & Kovblyuk, 2011: 269, f. 41.1-8 (mf)
Zygiella dispar Gregorič et al., 2015a: 241 (T from Parazygiella)
Zygiella dispar Tanikawa, 2017a: 1, f. 1E-F, 2D-F (mf)
Parazygiella dispar Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52 (T from Zygiella, by revalidating the genus Parazygiella)
References

Bösenberg, W. & Strand, E. (1906). Japanische Spinnen. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 30: 93-422. -- Show included taxa

Chikuni, Y. (1989b). Pictorial encyclopedia of spiders in Japan. Kaisei-sha Publishing Co. Tokyo, 310 pp. -- Show included taxa

Comstock, J. H. (1940). The spider book, revised and edited by W. J. Gertsch. Cornell Univ. Press Ithaca, 727 pp. -- Show included taxa

Dondale, C. D., Redner, J. H., Paquin, P. & Levi, H. W. (2003). The insects and arachnids of Canada. Part 23. The orb-weaving spiders of Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Uloboridae, Tetragnathidae, Araneidae, Theridiosomatidae). NRC Research Press Ottawa, 371 pp. -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1884). New England spiders of the family Epeiridae. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6: 295-342. -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1902). The common spiders of the United States. Ginn & Company Publ., Boston & London, 225 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.5617 -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1909). Supplement to the New England Spiders. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 14: 171-236. -- Show included taxa

Eskov, K. Y. & Marusik, Y. M. (2024). A comparative morphology of trichobothrial bases in araneoid spiders and its significance for the phylogeny and system of the superfamily Araneoidea (Arachnida, Araneae). ZooKeys 1219: 1-60. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1219.133002 -- Show included taxa

Gertsch, W. J. (1964a). The spider genus Zygiella in North America (Araneae, Argiopidae). American Museum Novitates 2188: 1-21. -- Show included taxa

Gregorič, M., Agnarsson, I., Blackledge, T. A. & Kuntner, M. (2015a). Phylogenetic position and composition of Zygiellinae and Caerostris, with new insight into orb-web evolution and gigantism. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175(2): 225-243. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12281 -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1885). Pająki zebrane na Kamczatce przez Dra B. Dybowskiego. Araneae in Camtschadalia a Dre B. Dybowski collectae. Pamiętnik Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, Wydział Matematyczno-Przyrodniczy 11(4): 1-60, pl. 9-11. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. & Field, H. M. (1954). The spiders of Wisconsin. American Midland Naturalist 51: 440-467. -- Show included taxa

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

Levi, H. W. (2002). Keys to the genera of araneid orbweavers (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Americas. Journal of Arachnology 30(3): 527-562. doi: 10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0527:KTTGOA]2.0.CO;2 -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. & Kovblyuk, M. M. (2011). Spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of Siberia and Russian Far East. KMK Scientific Press Moscow, 344 pp. -- Show included taxa

McCook, H. C. (1894). American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States with special regard to their industry and habits. Vol. III. Philadelphia, 285 pp., 30 pls. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.2681 [[for the year see p. 9]] -- Show included taxa

Tanikawa, A. (2002). Japanses spider of the genus Zygiella (Araneae: Araneidae). Acta Arachnologica 51(2): 105-107. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.51.105 -- Show included taxa

Tanikawa, A. (2007c). An identification guide to the Japanese spiders of the families Araneidae, Nephilidae and Tetragnathidae. Arachnological Society of Japan, 121 pp. -- Show included taxa

Tanikawa, A. (2009). Hersiliidae. Nephilidae, Tetragnathidae, Araneidae. In: Ono, H. (ed.) The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, pp. 149, 403-463. -- Show included taxa

Tanikawa, A. (2017a). A new species of Zygiella from Amami-ôshima Island, Japan (Araneae: Araneidae). Acta Arachnologica 66(1): 1-4. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.66.1 -- 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. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2024-12-20 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon Old value
2024-12-20 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon Old value
2024-12-20 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon Old value
2024-12-20 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon Old value
2024-12-20 New taxonomic reference entry Eskov & Marusik, 2024
2024-12-20 Species transferred to new genus Eskov & Marusik, 2024 Species transferred from Zygiella to Parazygiella
2017-09-18 New taxonomic reference entry Tanikawa, 2017a
2016-09-20 New taxonomic reference entry Gregorič et al., 2015a
2016-09-20 Species transferred to new genus Gregorič et al., 2015a Species transferred from Parazygiella to Zygiella

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