Taxon details
Metazygia wittfeldae (McCook, 1894)
- Rank: Species (Genus type)
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2024-12-22
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016490]
- Distribution: USA to Costa Rica. Introduced to Galapagos
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Metazygia wittfeldae F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 501, pl. 47, f. 22-23 (mf).
Araneus wittfeldae Petrunkevitch, 1911: 325.
Metazygia wittfeldae Levi, 1977a: 92, f. 90-103 (mf).
Metazygia wittfeldae Coddington, 1990: 14, f. 62 (m).
Metazygia wittfeldae Breene et al., 1993: 106, f. 162A-C (mf).
Metazygia wittfeldae Levi, 1995a: 81, f. 1-7 (mf).
Metazygia wittfeldae Scharff & Coddington, 1997: 375, f. 19 (m).
Metazygia wittfeldae Levi, 2002: 545, f. 158-161, 212 (mf).
Metazygia wittfeldae Baert et al., 2023: 6, f. 15A-B (m).
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] 
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Breene, R. G., Dean, D. A., Nyffeler, M. & Edwards, G. B. (1993). Biology, Predation Ecology, and Significance of Spiders in Texas Cotton Ecosystems with a Key to Species. Texas Agriculture Experiment Station, College Station, 115 pp. -- Show included taxa
Coddington, J. A. (1990). Ontogeny and homology in the male palpus of orb-weaving spiders and their relatives, with comments on phylogeny (Araneoclada: Araneoidea, Deinopoidea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 496: 1-52. -- Show included taxa
Levi, H. W. (1977a). The American orb-weaver genera Cyclosa, Metazygia and Eustala north of Mexico (Araneae, Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 148: 61-127. -- 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. -- Show included taxa
Levi, H. W. (2002). Keys to the genera of araneid orbweavers (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Americas. Journal of Arachnology 30(3): 527-562. doi:10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0527:KTTGOA]2.0.CO;2 -- Show included taxa
McCook, H. C. (1894). American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States with special regard to their industry and habits. Vol. III. Philadelphia, 285 pp., 30 pls. [for the year see p. 9] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.2681 -- 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. -- Show included taxa
Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1904). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 465-560, pl. 44-51. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] -- Show included taxa
Scharff, N. & Coddington, J. A. (1997). A phylogenetic analysis of the orb-weaving spider family Araneidae (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 120(4): 355-434. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1997.tb01281.x -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-12-22 | New taxonomic reference entry | Baert et al., 2023 | n/a |
| 2024-12-22 | Species distribution update | Baert et al., 2023 | n/a (Old value) |