Taxon details


Artema atlanta Walckenaer, 1837

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-09-21
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003327]
  • Distribution: North Africa, Middle East. Introduced to both Americas, tropical Africa, Britain, Belgium, Greece, Turkey, tropical Asia, China, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Pacific Is.
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); f (2566) of Pholcus rotundatus
  • Paratype: Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola (MIZA), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela; 1f of Tibiosa coreana (Huber & Villarreal, 2020)
  • Syntype: Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola (MIZA), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela; 10m 12f 10j (105732 = MAGS 1440) of Coroia magna (Huber & Villarreal, 2020)
Taxonomic references
Artema atlanta Walckenaer, 1837: 656 (Dmf).
Artema mauriciana Walckenaer, 1837: 657, pl. 15, f. 1 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056687].
Pholcus sisyphoides Doleschall, 1857: 408 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056689].
Artema convexa Blackwall, 1858b: 332 (Dj).
Pholcus borbonicus Vinson, 1863: 132, pl. 3, f. 4 (Df).
Artema mauricia Vinson, 1863: 141, 307 (Dm).
Artema convexa Blackwall, 1866: 459 (Df).
Pholcus rotundatus Karsch, 1879h: 106 (Df).
Artema mauricia Simon, 1885h: 19.
Artema sisyphoides Karsch, 1892: 276.
Artema mauricia Simon, 1893a: 463, f. 441, 451-454 (mf).
Artema atlanta Pocock, 1900a: 239, f. 81 (Df).
Artema mauriciana Kulczyński, 1901a: 20, pl. 1, f. 15 (f).
Artema atlanta F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902a: 366, pl. 34, f. 15-16 (mf).
Artema mauriciana Tullgren, 1910: 119, pl. 2, f. 35 (f).
Crossopriza sex-signata Franganillo, 1926a: 49 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056688].
Artema atlanta Petrunkevitch, 1929b: 119, f. 102-104 (mf).
Artema atlanta Dyal, 1935: 170, pl. 15, f. 97-103 (mf).
Artema mauriciana Millot, 1941: 3, f. 1F (m, S of Artema kochi and A. sisyphoides; S of A. kochi rejected by Aharon, Huber & Gavish-Regev, 2017: 26; other figs. see A. bunkpurugu).
Artema mauriciana Millot, 1946a: 129, f. 1 (f).
Artema atlanta Caporiacco, 1948a: 626 (S of Artema mauriciana).
Artema atlanta Chrysanthus, 1967b: 92, f. 15-19 (mf).
Artema atlanta Tikader & Biswas, 1981: 18, f. 12 (f).
Artema atlanta Brignoli, 1981c: 92, f. 1-7 (mf).
Artema atlanta Pérez, 1996: 432 (S of Crossopriza sexsignata).
Artema atlanta Huber, 2000: 12, f. 12-13, 48, 56-57, 99, 121, 145, 169, 195 (m).
Artema atlanta Van Keer & Van Keer, 2001: 83, f. 1.1-7 (mf).
Artema atlanta Saaristo, 2001b: 15, f. 16-22 (mf).
Artema atlanta Lee, 2005: 7, f. a-d (m).
Coroia magna González-Sponga, 2005: 102, pl. 2, f. 1-11 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047256].
Tibiosa coreana González-Sponga, 2006: 17, pl. 3, f. 8-9 (f) [misidentified per Huber, 2009a: 65].
Artema atlanta Beatty, Berry & Huber, 2008: 3, f. 15-16, 42-43 (mf).
Artema atlanta Colmenares-García, 2008: 87, f. 1A-C (m).
Artema atlanta Irie, 2009: 106, f. 1-2 (f).
Artema atlanta Saaristo, 2010: 159, f. 25.1-5 (mf).
Artema atlanta Gao & Li, 2010b: 11, f. 1A-D, 2A-D, 3A-C (mf).
Artema atlanta Le Peru, 2011: 152, f. 179 (mf).
Artema atlanta Tong, 2013: 55, f. 71A-D, 72A-D, 73A-C (mf).
Artema atlanta Huber, Colmenares & Ramírez, 2014: 417 (S of Coroia magna).
Artema atlanta Aharon, Huber & Gavish-Regev, 2017: 8, f. 3, 15-34, 201, 208 (mf).
Artema atlanta Al-Abbad, Al-Mayah & Al-Abody, 2019: 499, f. 2a-d, 3a-e, 4a-b, 5a-b (mf).
References

Aharon, S., Huber, B. A. & Gavish-Regev, E. (2017). Daddy-long-leg giants: revision of the spider genus Artema Walckenaer, 1837 (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 376: 1-57. doi:10.5852/ejt.2017.376 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Al-Abbad, M. Y. M., Al-Mayah, S. H. & Al-Abody, A. M. A. (2019). First record of the spider Artema atlanta Walckenaer, 1837 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Iraq, with references to some its biological aspects. International Journal of Biosciences 14(2): 498-502. doi:10.12692/ijb/14.2.498-502 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Beatty, J. A., Berry, J. W. & Huber, B. A. (2008). The pholcid spiders of Micronesia and Polynesia (Araneae, Pholcidae). Journal of Arachnology 36(1): 1-25. doi:10.1636/H05-66.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1858b). Characters of a new genus and description of three recently discovered species of Araneida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 2(11): 331-335. doi:10.1080/00222935808697040 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1866). A list of spiders captured in the south-east region of equatorial Africa, with descriptions of such species as appear to be new to arachnologists. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 18(108): 451-468. doi:10.1080/00222936608679683 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Brignoli, P. M. (1981c). Studies on the Pholcidae, I. Notes on the genera Artema and Physocyclus (Araneae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 170: 90-100. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1948a). Arachnida of British Guiana collected in 1931 and 1936 by Professors Beccari and Romiti. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 118(3): 607-747. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1948.tb00402.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chrysanthus, P. (1967b). Spiders from south New Guinea IX. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 110: 89-105. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Colmenares-García, P. A. (2008). Tres nuevos registros para la araneofauna Venezolana (Arachnida, Araneae, Pholcidae). Boletin del Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas de la Universidad del Zulia 42: 85-92. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Doleschall, L. (1857). Bijdrage tot de kennis der Arachniden van den Indischen Archipel. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indie 13: 339-434, pl. 1-2. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.66068 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dyal, S. (1935). Fauna of Lahore. 4.–Spiders of Lahore. Bulletin of the Department of Zoology of the Panjab University 1: 119-252, pl. 11-17. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Franganillo B., P. (1926a). Arácnidos nuevos o poco conocidos de la Isla de Cuba. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica de España 9: 42-68. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gao, C. X. & Li, S. Q. (2010b). Artema atlanta, a pantropical species new for China (Araneae, Pholcidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 19(1): 11-13. download pdf -- Show included taxa

González-Sponga, M. A. (2005). Arácnidos de Venezuela. Tres nuevos géneros y cuatro nuevas especies de la familia Pholcidae (Araneae). Saber, Universidad de Oriente 17(2): 99-109. download pdf -- Show included taxa

González-Sponga, M. A. (2006). Arácnidos de Venezuela. Un nuevo género y cinco nuevas especies de la familia Pholcidae (Araneae). Sapiens. Revista Universitaria de Investigación 7: 9-27. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. A. (2000). New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): A revision at generic level. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 254: 1-348. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)254<0001:NWPSAP>2.0.CO;2 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. A., Colmenares, P. A. & Ramírez, M. J. (2014). Fourteen new generic and ten new specific synonymies in Pholcidae (Araneae), and transfer of Mystes Bristowe to Filistatidae. Zootaxa 3847(3): 413-422. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3847.3.5 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Irie, T. (2009). Pholcidae. 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. 106-111. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1879h). Sieben neue Arachniden von St. Martha. Entomologische Zeitung, Stettin 40: 106-109. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1892). Arachniden von Ceylon und von Minikoy gesammelt von den Herren Doctoren P. und F. Sarasin. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 36(2, 1891): 267-310, pl. 10-12. [published mid March 1892] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1901a). Arachnoidea in Colonia Erythraea a Dre K. M. Levander collecta. Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzen Wydzialu Matematyczno Przyrodniczego Akademji Umiejetnosci, Krakow 41: 1-64. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Le Peru, B. (2011). The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lee, P. (2005). An imported pholcid in Felixstowe. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 102: 7. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Millot, J. (1941). Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Française - sicariides et pholcides. Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France (2) 64(3, 1940): 1-53. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Millot, J. (1946a). Les pholcides de Madagascar (Aranéides). Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (N.S.) 22: 127-158. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pérez G., A. (1996). Sobre la ausencia del género Crossopriza (Araneae: Pholcidae) en Cuba, con una nueva sinonimia para Artema atlanta Walckenaer, 1837. Caribbean Journal of Science 32: 431-432. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1929b). The spiders of Porto Rico. Part one. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 30: 1-158. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1902a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 313-424. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1900a). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Arachnida. Taylor and Francis, London, 279 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.48423 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (2001b). Pholcid spiders of the granitic Seychelles (Araneae, Pholcidae). Phelsuma 9: 9-28. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (2010). Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1885h). Matériaux pour servir à la faune arachnologiques de l'Asie méridionale. I. Arachnides recueillis à Wagra-Karoor près Gundacul, district de Bellary par M. M. Chaper. II. Arachnides recueillis à Ramnad, district de Madura par M. l'abbé Fabre. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 10(1): 1-39. [pl. 10 see Simon, 1885e] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1893a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 257-488. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. & Biswas, B. (1981). Spider fauna of Calcutta and vicinity: Part-I. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 30: 1-149. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tong, Y. F. (2013). Haplogynae spiders from Hainan, China. Science Press, Beijing, 96 pp., 81 pl. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tullgren, A. (1910). Araneae. In: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. Sjöstedts Kilimandjaro-Meru Expedition 20(6): 85-172, pl. 1-4. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6622 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Van Keer, K. & Van Keer, J. (2001). Ingeburgerde exotische trilspinnen (Araneae: Pholcidae) in Antwerpse haven en enkele algemene bedenkingen bij spinnenmigratie. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 16(3): 81-86. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Vinson, A. (1863). Aranéides des îles de La Réunion, Maurice et Madagascar. Librairie Classique Eugène Belin, Paris, 337 pp., pl. 1-14. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.125517 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Tome premier. Roret, Paris, 682 pp., pl. 1-15. [plates in second pdf] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2022-09-21 New taxonomic reference entry Al-Abbad, Al-Mayah & Al-Abody, 2019 n/a
2017-12-12 New taxonomic reference entry González-Sponga, 2006 n/a
2017-12-11 New taxonomic reference entry Aharon, Huber & Gavish-Regev, 2017 n/a
2017-12-11 Species distribution update Aharon, Huber & Gavish-Regev, 2017 n/a (Old value)
2017-12-11 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Artema kochi Kulczyński, 1901
2017-12-11 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Artema kochi Kulczyński, 1901
2017-12-11 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Artema kochi Kulczyński, 1901
2017-11-22 New taxonomic reference entry Siyam, Dunlop & Jäger, 2017 n/a
2015-02-23 New taxonomic reference entry Van Keer & Van Keer, 2001 n/a
2014-11-18 New taxonomic reference entry Huber, Colmenares & Ramírez, 2014 n/a
2014-11-18 Species synonymy Huber, Colmenares & Ramírez, 2014 Artema magna synonymized with Artema atlanta