Agyneta emertoni Roewer 1942
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Description
Agyneta emertoni (Roewer 1942)
Figs 195, 196, map 12
Microneta pallida Emerton 1917: 265, f. 17.1–2. (Description 3, preoccupied by Kulczyn'ski, 1908). Microneta emertoni Roewer 1942: 521. (Replacement name).
Meioneta pallida van Helsdingen 1973: 7, 9. (Transferred 3 from Microneta, subprimary junior homonym). Agyneta emertoni Buckle et al. 2001: 100. (Transferred from Meioneta).
Type material: Microneta pallida Emerton 1917, 3 SYNTYPE from Departure Bay, Vancouver Island. 1913. T.B. Kurata. J.H. Emerton Coll. (unique number 22478). MCZ, EXAMINED. One female Erigoninae also in vial. Diagnosis: Males are diagnosed from all Agyneta species by the large rounded dorsal cymbial tubercle (Fig. 196) and their finger-shaped lamella characteristica (Fig. 195).
Description: Male: Total length 2.02; carapace length 0.88, width 0.77.
MAP. 12. Localities of Agyneta emertoni (Rower 1942), Agyneta erinacea n. sp. and Agyneta crawfordi n. sp.
CEPHALOTHORAX: Carapace light yellow, shiny, finely reticulate; suffused with dark gray along radiating lines and pars cephalica. Sternum completely suffused with dark gray. Chelicerae light yellow; excavated; promargin 0 denticle, retromargin five denticles. Cheliceral stridulatory organ visible ~9 striae, largely spaced (not observed under microscope). ABDOMEN: Uniformly light gray. LEGS: Light yellow; Tm I not observed, Tm IV: absent. GENITALIA: Palpal retrolateral tibial apophysis small, rounded; dorsal tibial apophysis elongated, rugose; palpal tibial trichobothria not observed (Fig. 195). Cymbium with retrolateral fold; glabrous depression not observed (Fig. 195); dorsal cymbial tubercle large and rounded; ventral tubercle absent; prolateral notch absent (Fig. 196). Paracymbium with apical pocket only; lamella characteristica small, fingerlike (Fig. 195).
Female: Unknown.
Other material examined: None.
Distribution: Western Canada, British Columbia.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Linyphiidae
- Genus
- Agyneta
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Araneae
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Roewer
- Species
- emertoni
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Agyneta emertoni Roewer, 1942 sec. Dupérré, 2013
References
- Roewer, C. F. (1942). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940. Bremen, 1, 1 - 1040.
- Emerton, J. H. (1917) New spiders from Canada and the adjoining states. Canadian Entomologist, 49, 261 - 272. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.4039 / Ent 49261 - 8
- Helsdingen, P. J. van (1973) A recapitulation of the Nearctic species of Centromerus Dahl (Araneida, Linyphiidae) with remarks on Tunagyna debilis (Banks). Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden, 124, 1 - 45.
- Buckle, D. J., Carroll, D., Crawford, R. L. & Roth, V. D. (2001) Linyphiidae and Pimoidae of America north of Mexico: Checklists, synonymy, and literature. In: Paquin, P. & Buckle, D. J. (Eds.), Contributions a la connaissance des Araignees (Araneae) d'Amerique du Nord. Fabreries, Quebec, Supplement 10, pp. 89 - 191.