Metellina orientalis

Metellina orientalis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Araneoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Araneomorphae Taxon: Neocribellatae Series: Entelegynae Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Tetragnathidae
Subfamilia: Metainae
Genus: Metellina
Species: Metellina orientalis

Name

Metellina orientalis (Spassky, 1932)

Type locality: Armenia

Lectotype ♀ (by Marusik, 1986): ZISP (13-16.VIII.1931; M. Karpova, P. Karpov)

Paralectotypes 1♀2♂: ZISP

Synonyms

• Meta orientalis Spassky, 1932
• Metellina orientalis — Marusik, 1985

References

Primary references

• Spassky, S. A. 1932. Aranearum species novae. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (2) 4: 182–189. [184, f. 5-8]
• Marusik, Y. M. 1986. A redescription of types of certain orb-weaving spiders (Araneidae, Tetragnathidae) from S. A. Spassky collection. Vestnik Zoologii 6: 19–22. PDF [19, f. 1.1-3]

Additional references

• Özkütük, R.S., Marusik, Yu.M., Kunt, K.B. & Elverici, M. 2017. Taxonomic notes on two sibling species of Metellina from Asia (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). ZooKeys 695: 75–88. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.695.13611. Reference page. 

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