Taxon details

Family: Theridiidae / Genus: Rugathodes

Rugathodes pico (Merrett & Ashmole, 1989)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008004]
  • Distribution: Azores
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Departamento de Zoología de la Universidad de La Laguna (DZUL), Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; m (Merrett & Ashmole, 1989)
  • Paratype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; 1f (Merrett & Ashmole, 1989)
  • Paratype: N. Philip Ashmole Private Collection, Edinburgh, UK; 2f 1j (Merrett & Ashmole, 1989)
  • Paratype: Museo Insular de Ciencias Naturales de Sta Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; 1f 5j (Merrett & Ashmole, 1989)
  • Allotype: Departamento de Zoología de la Universidad de La Laguna (DZUL), Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; f (Merrett & Ashmole, 1989)
Taxonomic references
Theridion pico Merrett & Ashmole, 1989: 51, f. 1-8 (Dmf).
Rugathodes pico Wunderlich, 1992a: 417, f. 590-594 (mf, T from Theridion).
Rugathodes pico Wunderlich, 1993c: 684, f. 7c (m).
Rugathodes pico Wunderlich, 2008b: 394, f. 569 (m).
References

Merrett, P. & Ashmole, N. P. (1989). A new troglobitic Theridion (Araneae: Theridiidae) from the Azores. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 8(2): 51-54. 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. (1993c). The Macaronesian cave-dwelling spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33: 681-686. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2008b). On extant and fossil (Eocene) European comb-footed spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae), with notes on their subfamilies, and with descriptions of new taxa. Beiträge zur Araneologie 5: 140-469, 792-794, 796-800, 803, 819-859. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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