Taxon details


Metopobactrus prominulus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-08-30
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011771]
  • Distribution: Canada, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Japan
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland (database search of type material, 08.04.2019); Metopobactrus schenkeli Thaler, 1976, 1 m (NMB-ARAN-02288 a)
  • Neotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH), Oxford, UK; m (3830 (i)), validity of neotype doubtful (Locket, 1964)
  • Paratype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH), Oxford, UK; f (3830 (ii) (Locket, 1964)
  • Paratype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland (database search of type material, 08.04.2019); Metopobactrus schenkeli Thaler, 1976, 3 m (NMB-ARAN-02288 b, d)
Taxonomic references
Erigone prominula O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873a: 750, pl. 65, f. 4 (Dm).
Walckenaera prominula O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881a: 448.
Lophocarenum prominulum Förster & Bertkau, 1883: 235, pl. 3, f. 3 (m).
Metopobactrus prominulus Simon, 1884a: 723, f. 596-597 (m, Df).
Metopobactrus prominulus Smith, 1901a: 304, p. 334: f. 1p, 2m (m).
Metopobactrus prominulus Bösenberg, 1902: 209, pl. 18, f. 294 (m).
Microneta territa O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1907: 77, 88, pl. 27, f. 19-21 (Df).
Caseola alticeps Emerton, 1909: 187, pl. 2, f. 2 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011529].
Metopobactrus prominulus Simon, 1926: 358, 489, f. 638-639 (mf).
Metopobactrus prominulus Schenkel, 1927b: 241, f. 5 (m).
Araeoncus alticeps Petrunkevitch, 1929a: 522 (Df).
Maso alticeps Bishop & Crosby, 1935c: 231, pl. 19, f. 29-32 (m).
Metopobactrus prominulus Miller, 1947: 38, pl. VI, f. 11 (f).
Maso alticeps Kaston, 1948: 145, f. 341-345 (m).
Metopobactrus prominulus Locket & Millidge, 1953: 227, f. 138F-I (mf).
Metopobactrus prominulus Tullgren, 1955: 343, f. 46a-f (mf).
Metopobactrus prominulus Wiehle, 1960a: 246, f. 446-451 (mf).
Metopobactrus prominulus Merrett, 1963b: 414, f. 90A-C (m).
Metopobactrus prominulus Tystshenko, 1971: 248, f. 878, 881 (mf).
Metopobactrus prominulus Miller, 1971: 264, pl. LIX, f. 27-28 (mf).
Metopobactrus prominulus Palmgren, 1976: 78, f. 9.1-5 (mf).
Metopobactrus prominulus Thaler, 1976a: 232, f. 21-22, 26, 30-32, 34, 36-38, 42 (mf).
Metopobactrus schenkeli Thaler, 1976a: 240, f. 23-24, 41, 58-65 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011773].
Metopobactrus prominulus Millidge, 1977: 25, f. 89 (m).
Metopobactrus prominulus Roberts, 1987: 46, f. 14c, 17c (mf).
Metopobactrus prominulus Tanasevitch, 1990: 54, f. 16.9-11, 24.53 (mf).
Metopobactrus prominulus Saito & Yasuda, 1990: 11, f. 1-6 (mf).
Metopobactrus prominulus Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 214, f. 575 (mf).
Metopobactrus prominulus Buckle et al., 2001: 132 (S of Maso alticeps).
Metopobactrus prominulus Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 115, f. 1179-1182 (mf).
Metopobactrus prominulus Muff et al., 2007: 20, f. 4a-f (S).
Metopobactrus prominulus Ono, Matsuda & Saito, 2009: 270, f. 137-143 (mf).
Metopobactrus prominulus Marusik, 2015: 689, f. 11M-N (f).
Metopobactrus prominulus Crespo et al., 2018: 166, f. 7a-h (mf, new male dimorphism).
Metopobactrus prominulus f. schenkeli Breitling, 2020: 347, f. 18C-D (m).
References

Bishop, S. C. & Crosby, C. R. (1935c). Studies in American spiders: miscellaneous genera of Erigoneae, part I. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 43: 217-241, 255-280. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bösenberg, W. (1902). Die Spinnen Deutschlands. II-IV. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14(2-4): 97-384, pl. 9-36. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6508 download pdf download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Breitling, R. (2020). South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18(4): 333-362. doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.333 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Buckle, D. J., Carroll, D., Crawford, R. L. & Roth, V. D. (2001). Linyphiidae and Pimoidae of America north of Mexico: checklist, synonymy, and literature. Fabreries, Supplement 10: 89-191. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Crespo, L. C., Domènech, M., Enguídanos, A., Malumbres-Olarte, J., Cardoso, P., Moya-Laraño, J., Frías-López, C., Macías-Hernández, N., De Mas, E., Mazzuca, P., Mora, E., Opatova, V., Planas, E., Ribera, C., Roca-Cusachs, M., Ruiz, D., Sousa, P., Tonzo, V. & Arnedo, M. A. (2018). A DNA barcode-assisted annotated checklist of the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) communities associated to white oak woodlands in Spanish National Parks. Biodiversity Data Journal 6(e29443): 1-459. doi:10.3897/BDJ.6.e29443 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1909). Supplement to the New England Spiders. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 14: 171-236. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Förster, A. & Bertkau, P. (1883). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Spinnenfauna der Rheinprovinz. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 40: 205-278. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kaston, B. J. (1948). Spiders of Connecticut. Bulletin of the Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey 70: 1-874. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Locket, G. H. & Millidge, A. F. (1953). British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. (2015). Araneae (Spiders). In: Böcher, J., Kristensen, N. P., Pape, T. & Vilhelmsen, L. (eds.) The Greenland Entomofauna. An identification manual of insects, spiders and their allies. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 44: 667-703. Brill, Leiden. doi:10.1163/9789004261051_019 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Merrett, P. (1963b). The palpus of male spiders of the family Linyphiidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 140(3): 347-467. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1963.tb01867.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Miller, F. (1947). Pavoučí zvířena hadcových stepí u Mohelna. Archiv Svazu na Výzkum a Ochranu Přírody i Krajiny v Zemi Moravskoslezské 7: 1-107. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Miller, F. (1971). Pavouci-Araneida. Klíč zvířeny ČSSR 4: 51-306. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Millidge, A. F. (1977). The conformation of the male palpal organs of linyphiid spiders, and its application to the taxonomic and phylogenetic analysis of the family (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4: 1-60. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Muff, P., Schmidt, M. H., Frick, H., Nentwig, W. & Kropf, C. (2007). Spider (Arachnida: Araneae) distribution across the timberline in the Swiss Central Alps (Alp Flix, Grisons) and three morphologically variable species. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 34: 16-24. doi:10.5431/aramit3404 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Ono, H., Matsuda, M. & Saito, H. (2009). Linyphiidae, Pimoidae. 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. 253-344. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Palmgren, P. (1976). Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands und Ostfennoskandiens. VII. Linyphiidae 2 (Micryphantinae, mit Ausnahme der Linyphiindae-ähnlichen). Fauna Fennica 29: 1-126. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Paquin, P. & Dupérré, N. (2003). Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Supplement 11: 1-251. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1929a). Descriptions of new or inadequately known American spiders (second paper). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 22(3): 511-524, pl. 1. doi:10.1093/aesa/22.3.511 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1873a). Descriptions of twenty-four new species of Erigone. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 40(3, 1872): 747-769, pl. 65-66. [published in April 1873, after Duncan, 1937] doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1872.tb00496.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1881a). The spiders of Dorset, with an appendix containing short descriptions of those British species not yet found in Dorsetshire. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club 2: 237-625. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1907). On some new and rare British Arachnida. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club 27(for 1906): 72-92. [published on Jan. 16, 1907, after Sykes, 1941] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1987). The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2: Linyphiidae and check list. Harley Books, Colchester, England, 204 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Saito, H. & Yasuda, N. (1990). On two species of erigonine spiders from Hokkaido hitherto unknown to Japan. Atypus 96: 10-15. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schenkel, E. (1927b). Beitrag zur Kenntnis der schweizerischen Spinnenfauna. III. Teil. Spinnen von Saas-Fee. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 34: 221-267. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1884a). Les arachnides de France. Tome cinquième, deuxième et troisième partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 180-885, pl. 26-27. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1926). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 2e partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 309-532. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Smith, F. P. (1901a). An introduction to British spiders [continued]. Science-Gossip New Series 7(80, 81, 82, 83, 84): 235-236, 265-267, 303-304, 333-334, 358-360. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tanasevitch, A. V. (1990). The spider family Linyphiidae in the fauna of the Caucasus (Arachnida, Aranei). In: B. R. Striganova (ed.) Fauna nazemnykh bespozvonochnykh Kavkaza. Moscow, Akaedemia Nauk, pp. 5-114. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thaler, K. (1976a). Über wenig bekannte Zwergspinnen aus den Alpen, IV (Arachnida, Aranei, Erigonidae). Archives des Sciences, Genève 29(3): 227-246. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tullgren, A. (1955). Zur Kenntnis schwedischer Erigoniden. Arkiv för Zoologi (N.S.) 7(20, 1954): 295-389, pl. 1-29. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tystshenko, V. P. (1971). Opredelitel' paukov evropejskoj chasti SSSR. Leningrad, 281 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wiehle, H. (1960a). Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae). XI. Micryphantidae – Zwergspinnen. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 47: 1-620. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2020-11-25 New taxonomic reference entry Smith, 1901a n/a
2020-03-24 New taxonomic reference entry Breitling, 2020 n/a
2018-12-04 New taxonomic reference entry Crespo et al., 2018 n/a
2016-11-03 Species updated Error corrected (Old value)
2016-03-17 New taxonomic reference entry Marusik, 2015 n/a