Parazygiella montana (C. L. Koch, 1834)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017179

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Described:

Distribution: Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Middle Siberia), Uzbekistan


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Taxonomic References
Zilla montana C. L. Koch, 1834: 125, pl. 19 (Df) Original description
Zilla montana C. L. Koch, 1839a: 146, f. 536-537 (Dmf)
Zilla alpina L. Koch, 1870: 16 (Dmf; preoccupied by Giebel, 1867, see Phylloneta sisyphia) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063403]
Zilla montana Kulczyński, 1885: 25, pl. 9, f. 8 (m)
Zilla montana Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1891: 137, pl. 5, f. 33 (f)
Zilla montana Bösenberg, 1901: 44, pl. 3, f. 33 (mf)
Araneus montanus Lessert, 1910b: 341
Zygiella montana Simon, 1929: 663, 754, f. 1020, 1026 (mf; S of Zilla alpina L. Koch)
Zilla montana Wiehle, 1931: 38, f. 46-48 (mf)
Zilla montana Drensky, 1943: 227, f. 8 (mf)
Zygiella montana Miller, 1971: 202, pl. XXXVII, f. 10-11 (mf)
Zygiella montana Levi, 1974a: 278, f. 51-56, 59-61 (mf)
Zygiella montana Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 64, f. 141 (mf)
Zygiella montana Roberts, 1995: 335, f. (mf)
Zygiella montana Roberts, 1998: 347, f. (mf)
Parazygiella montana Wunderlich, 2004f: 936 (T from Zygiella)
Parazygiella montana Topçu et al., 2006a: 336, f. 2 (f)
Zygiella montana Gregorič et al., 2015a: 241 (T from Parazygiella)
Parazygiella montana Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52 (T from Zygiella, by revalidating the genus Parazygiella)
References

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

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

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

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

Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1834). Arachniden. Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg, Heft 122-126. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.15007 [[H. 127 moved to 1835 after Nagel & Grieder, 2019: 109]] -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1839a). Die Arachniden. Sechster Band. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, pp. 1-156, pl. 181-216 (f. 432-540). doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.43744 [[incl. v. 7/1839-1840; for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b]] -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1870). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Arachnidenfauna Galiziens. Jahrbuch der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Gelehrten Gesellschaft in Krakau 41: 1-56. -- 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

Lessert, R. de (1910b). Catalogue des invertebres de la Suisse. Fasc. 3, Araignées. Musée d'histoire naturelle de Genève, 635 pp. -- 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

Miller, F. (1971). Pavouci-Araneida. Klíč zvířeny ČSSR 4: 51-306. -- 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

Simon, E. (1929). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 3e partie. Roret, Paris, 533-772. -- Show included taxa

Topçu, A., Seyyar, O., Demir, H. & Türkeş, T. (2006a). A contribution to the knowledge of the Turkish spider fauna (Araneae). In: Deltshev, C. & Stoev, P. (eds.) European Arachnology 2005. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, Supplement 1: 335-338. -- Show included taxa

Wiehle, H. (1931). Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea. 27. Familie. Araneidae. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 23: 47-136. -- 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 assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Parazygiella dispar (Kulczyński, 1885)
2024-12-20 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Parazygiella dispar (Kulczyński, 1885)
2024-12-20 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Parazygiella dispar (Kulczyński, 1885)
2024-12-20 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Parazygiella dispar (Kulczyński, 1885)
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
2023-10-30 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Leviellus stroemi (Thorell, 1870)
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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