Taxon details


Diplocephalus cristatus (Blackwall, 1833)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-05-21
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010052]
  • Distribution: Europe, Russia (Far East), Kazakhstan. Introd. to North America, Falkland Is., New Zealand. N.B.: morph foraminifer only in: Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Romania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden; m of Diplocephalus cristatus angusticeps (Holm, 1973)
  • Paratype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden; 4m 3f of Diplocephalus cristatus angusticeps (Holm, 1973)
  • Syntype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany; 5m 5f 10j (3683-115) of Theridion bicorne (Wider, 1834)
  • Allotype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden; f of Diplocephalus cristatus angusticeps (Holm, 1973)
Taxonomic references
Walckenaeria cristatus Blackwall, 1833: 107 (Dmf).
Theridion bicorne Wider, 1834: 220, pl. 14, f. 12 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060692].
Walckenaeria cristatus Blackwall, 1834b: 317, pl. 2, f. 7-10 (mf).
Argus bicornis Walckenaer, 1841: 365.
Micryphantes caespitum C. L. Koch, 1841a: vol. 8: 104, f. 673-674 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060693].
Erigone bicornis Westring, 1851: 41.
Melicertus bicornis Simon, 1864: 196.
Walckenaera cristatus Blackwall, 1864a: 309, pl. 21, f. 224 (mf).
Lophomma bicorne Menge, 1868: 212, pl. 42, f. 111 (mf).
Erigone cristata Thorell, 1871a: 108 (S of Lophomma bicorne and Micryphantes caespitum).
Erigone foraminifera O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875b: 207, pl. 28, f. 15 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010056].
Lophomma cristata Emerton, 1882: 44, pl. 10, f. 1 (mf).
Prosoponcus bicephalus Simon, 1884a: 575, f. 388-389 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010044].
Prosoponcus cristatus Simon, 1884a: 570, f. 380-381 (mf).
Prosoponcus foraminifer Simon, 1884a: 572, f. 382-383 (m).
Prosoponcus thyrsiger Simon, 1884a: 574, f. 386-387 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010057].
Prosoponcus rectiloba Simon, 1884a: 573, f. 384-385 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010075].
Diplocephalus cristatus Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1894: 109, pl. 4, f. 22 (mf).
Diplocephalus crassilobus Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1894: 109, pl. 4, f. 29 (Dm).
Diplocephalus bicephalus Simon, 1894a: 613, f. 653-654 (m).
Diplocephalus cristatus Becker, 1896: 116, pl. 11, f. 5 (mf).
Diplocephalus cristatus Smith, 1901a: 360, p. 359: f. 1m, 2g (m).
Diplocephalus cristatus Bösenberg, 1902: 191, pl. 17, f. 264 (mf).
Lophomma cristatus Banks, 1916: 73, pl. 11, f. 29 (f).
Diplocephalus bicephalus Simon, 1926: 378, 495, f. 672-674 (m, Df).
Diplocephalus foraminifer Simon, 1926: 377, 495, f. 667-668 (m).
Diplocephalus foraminifer thyrsiger Simon, 1926: 378, 495, f. 669-671 (m, Df).
Diplocephalus rectilobus Simon, 1926: 377.
Diplocephalus cristatus Bishop & Crosby, 1935c: 239, pl. 20, f. 42-43 (mf).
Diplocephalus cristatus Kaston, 1948: 170, f. 457, 482-483 (m).
Diplocephalus arvernus Denis, 1948b: 238, f. 1-8 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010042].
Diplocephalus cristatus Locket & Millidge, 1953: 291, f. 174D, 176D-F (mf).
Diplocephalus cristatus Tullgren, 1955: 324, f. 28a-c (f).
Diplocephalus cristatus Brændegaard, 1958: 52, f. 52-53 (mf).
Diplocephalus cristatus Wiehle, 1960a: 501, f. 926-934 (mf).
Diplocephalus cristatus Merrett, 1963b: 401, f. 66A-E (m).
Diplocephalus cristatus Wiehle, 1967b: 187, f. 12-14 (f).
Diplocephalus cristatus Georgescu, 1969a: 206, f. 3-4, 9-10, 13 (f).
Diplocephalus cristatus foraminifer Georgescu, 1969a: 207, f. 5-8, 11-13 (f, reduced to "groupe de formes").
Diplocephalus foraminifer Denis, 1970: 380 (reduction to subspecies rejected).
Diplocephalus cristatus Tystshenko, 1971: 259, f. 771 (f).
Diplocephalus cristatus Miller, 1971: 280, pl. LIX, f. 19-21 (mf).
Diplocephalus cristatus Holm, 1973: 81, f. 25-26, 28 (f).
Diplocephalus cristatus angusticeps Holm, 1973: 81, f. 23-24, 27 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010053].
Diplocephalus cristatus foraminifer Georgescu, 1973b: 259, f. 13 (m).
Diplocephalus cfr. cristatus Brignoli, 1975c: 27, f. 29-30 (m).
Diplocephalus cristatus Palmgren, 1976: 53, f. 16.17-19 (mf).
Diplocephalus cristatus Millidge, 1977: 32, f. 126 (m).
Diplocephalus cristatus Millidge, 1980a: 101, f. 6-7 (m).
Diplocephalus cristatus Millidge, 1984b: 250, f. 103, 106 (f).
Diplocephalus foraminifer Deltshev, 1985a: 361, f. 6-10 (mf).
Diplocephalus cristatus Millidge, 1986: 58, f. 4.
Diplocephalus cristatus Bürgis, 1986a: 354, f. 2 (m).
Diplocephalus cristatus Roberts, 1987: 84, f. 36d, 39g (mf).
Diplocephalus cristatus Schaible & Gack, 1987: 173, f. 1, 7 (m prosoma).
Diplocephalus cristatus Millidge, 1988a: 61, f. 290-292, 296, 299, 307 (mf).
Diplocephalus cristatus Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 140, f. 396 (mf).
Diplocephalus cristatus Agnarsson, 1996: 97, f. 95A-D (mf).
Diplocephalus cristatus Hormiga, 2000: 33, f. 6A-I, pl. 19A-F, 20A-F, 21A-D, 79D (mf).
Diplocephalus cristatus Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 98, f. 910-913 (mf).
Diplocephalus cristatus Paquin, Vink & Dupérré, 2010: 56, f. 31.3-6 (mf).
Diplocephalus cristatus Tanasevitch, 2011c: 138 (S of Diplocephalus cristatus angusticeps).
Diplocephalus cristatus Lavery & Snazell, 2013: 58, f. 63-67 (mf).
Diplocephalus cristatus Bosmans & Oger, 2018: 54, f. 1a-o, 2a-f (mf, S of Diplocephalus arvernus, D. foraminifer (downgraded to morph), D. foraminifer thyrsiger, D. rectilobus (all morph foraminifer) and of D. bicephalus (morph cristatus)).
Diplocephalus cristatus Hänggi & Gloor, 2020: 93, f. 8 (m habitus).
References

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Becker, L. (1896). Les arachnides de Belgique, deuxième et troisième parties. Annales du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 12(2): 1-127, pl. 1-25 & 12(3): 1-378, pl. 1-18. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.48721 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Deltshev, C. D. (1985a). A contribution to the study of the family Erigonidae (Araneae) from Pirin Mountain, Bulgaria, with a description of a new species (Metopobactrus orbelicus sp. n.). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 6(8): 359-366. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Emerton, J. H. (1882). New England spiders of the family Theridiidae. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6: 1-86. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Holm, Å. (1973). On the spiders collected during the Swedish expeditions to Novaya Zemlya and Yenisey in 1875 and 1876. Zoologica Scripta 2(2-3): 71-110. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.1974.tb00741.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Kaston, B. J. (1948). Spiders of Connecticut. Bulletin of the Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey 70: 1-874. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2020-11-25 New taxonomic reference entry Smith, 1901a n/a
2020-04-10 New taxonomic reference entry Hänggi & Gloor, 2020 n/a
2019-09-18 New taxonomic reference entry Schaible & Gack, 1987 n/a
2018-05-15 Species synonymy Bosmans & Oger, 2018 Diplocephalus arvernus synonymized with Diplocephalus cristatus
2018-05-15 Species synonymy Bosmans & Oger, 2018 Diplocephalus foraminifer thyrsiger synonymized with Diplocephalus cristatus
2018-05-15 Species synonymy Bosmans & Oger, 2018 Diplocephalus rectilobus synonymized with Diplocephalus cristatus
2018-05-15 Species synonymy Bosmans & Oger, 2018 Diplocephalus bicephalus synonymized with Diplocephalus cristatus
2018-05-15 Species synonymy Bosmans & Oger, 2018 Diplocephalus foraminifer synonymized with Diplocephalus cristatus
2018-05-15 New taxonomic reference entry Bosmans & Oger, 2018 n/a
2018-05-15 Species distribution update Bosmans & Oger, 2018 n/a (Old value)