Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Metazygia

Metazygia dubia (Keyserling, 1864)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-12-22
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016430]
  • Distribution: Costa Rica, Jamaica, Cuba to Galapagos, Peru, Brazil
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Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Epeira dubia Keyserling, 1864: 123, pl. 4, f. 12-13 (Df).
Epeira dubia Keyserling, 1892: 187, pl. 9, f. 138 (f).
Araneus dubius Petrunkevitch, 1911: 290.
Epeira moraballii Hingston, 1932: 363 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060386].
Metazygia dubia Levi, 1991a: 179 (T from Araneus).
Metazygia dubia Levi, 1995a: 82, f. 15-21 (Dm, f, S of Araneus moraballii).
Metazygia dubia Baert et al., 2023: 6, f. 14A-D (mf).
References

Baert, L., Maelfait, J.-P., Desender, K., Hendrickx, F., Dekoninck, W., Berthet, M., Bouckaert, K., Caudron, J. & Leclercq, M. (2023). Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands. Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1-188. [includes figs of 5 undescribed species] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hingston, R. W. G. (1932). A naturalist in the Guiana forest. London, pp. 1-384 (Araneae, 363-377). download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1864). Beschreibungen neuer und wenig bekannter Arten aus der Familie Orbitelae Latr. oder Epeiridae Sund. Sitzungs-Berichte der naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Isis in Dresden 1863: 63-98, 119-154, pl. 1-7. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1892). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 4, 1-208. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1991a). The Neotropical and Mexican species of the orb-weaver genera Araneus, Dubiepeira, and Aculepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 152(4): 167-315. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1995a). The Neotropical orb-weaver genus Metazygia (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 154: 63-151. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-12-22 New taxonomic reference entry Baert et al., 2023 n/a
2022-12-07 Species distribution update n/a (Old value)