Taxon details

Family: Tetragnathidae / Genus: Metellina

Metellina minima (Denis, 1953)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-04-10
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013883]
  • Distribution: Canary Is.
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Type deposit provide information
  • It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Denis can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Meta canariensis Schmidt, 1975, 1 m, 1 f (28846-122)
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Meta ramblae Schmidt, 1975, 1 f (28926-122)
Taxonomic references
Meta obscura minima Denis, 1953c: 6 (Df).
Meta obscura Denis, 1953c: 4, f. 4 (f; misidentified per Denis, 1962a: 82).
Meta minima Denis, 1962a: 82 (elevated from subspecies).
Meta canariensis Schmidt, 1975a: 226, f. 6-7 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060522].
Meta ramblae Schmidt, 1975a: 227, f. 8-9 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060524].
Meta minima Wunderlich, 1987a: 132 (S of Meta canariensis and M. ramblae).
Meta minima Wunderlich, 1992a: 363, f. 330-332 (mf).
Metellina minima Wunderlich, 2008a: 94, f. 17 (m, T from Meta).
Metellina minima Marusik & Larsen, 2018: 211 (T from Meta confirmed).
References

Denis, J. (1953c). Araignées recueillies à Tenerife (Iles Canaries). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 29(39): 1-8. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1962a). Les araignées de l'archipel de Madère (Mission du Professeur Vandel). Publicações do Instituto Zoologia Doutor Augusto Nobre 79: 9-118, pl. 1-12. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. & Larsen, N. (2018). A synopsis of African Metellina (Aranei, Tetragnathidae, Metainae) with description of a new species from South Africa. Vestnik Zoologii 52(3): 205-216. doi:10.2478/vzoo-2018-0021 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1975a). Spinnen von Gomera. Zoologische Beiträge (N.F.) 21(2): 219-231. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1987a). Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen. Triops, Langen, 435 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1992a). Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie und Evolution. Beiträge zur Araneologie 1: 1-619. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2008a). Descriptions of fossil spider (Araneae) taxa mainly in Baltic amber, as well as on certain related extant taxa. Beiträge zur Araneologie 5: 44-139, 803-804, 813-818. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-04-10 New taxonomic reference entry Denis, 1953c n/a
2018-07-27 New taxonomic reference entry Marusik & Larsen, 2018 n/a
2018-07-27 Species transferred to new genus Marusik & Larsen, 2018 Species transferred from Meta to Metellina