Taxon details

Family: Tetragnathidae / Genus: Tetragnatha

Tetragnatha jaculator Tullgren, 1910

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-03-07
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014211]
  • Distribution: Africa to China and India, New Guinea (Indonesia, Papua New Guinea). Introduced to the Caribbean and South America
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; m (21841) of Tetragnatha lewisi (Castanheira & Baptista, 2021b)
  • Lectotype: Museo de La Plata (MLP), La Plata, Argentina; m (16420) of Tetragnatha argyroides (Castanheira & Baptista, 2021b)
  • Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Tetragnatha jaculator Tullgren, 1910, (26718)
  • Syntype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden; mm ff (GULI000069806) (Castanheira & Baptista, 2021b)
Taxonomic references
Tetragnatha jaculator Tullgren, 1910: 150, pl. 3, f. 73 (Dmf).
Tetragnatha argyroides Mello-Leitão, 1945b: 243, f. 20-21 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014090].
Tetragnatha lewisi Chickering, 1962: 439, f. 41-48 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014235].
Tetragnatha jaculator Okuma, 1984: 87, f. 1A-H (m).
Tetragnatha jaculator Okuma, 1987: 55, f. 11A-L (mf).
Tetragnatha jaculator Okuma & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1988: 231, f. 7A-L (mf).
Tetragnatha jaculator Okuma, 1988c: 194, f. 10A-L (mf).
Tetragnatha jaculator Okuma, 1992: 230, f. 10A-I (m; may be senior S of T. argyroides and T. lewisi).
Tetragnatha jaculator Okuma et al., 1993: 36, f. 32A-G (mf).
Tetragnatha jaculator Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003: 146, f. 73A-G, 74A-G (mf).
Tetragnatha jaculator Heinrichs & Barrion, 2004: 206, f. 569-572 (mf).
Tetragnatha jaculator Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020t: 37, 11 f. (mf).
Tetragnatha jaculator Castanheira & Baptista, 2021b: 3047, f. 56-81 (mf, S of Tetragnatha argyroides, T. lewisi and T. riveti; T. riveti revalidated by Dupérré, 2023: 216).
Tetragnatha jaculator Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2023a: 40, f. 1-8 (mf).
References

Castanheira, P. de S. & Baptista, R. L. C. (2021b). Redescription of Tetragnatha guatemalensis, T. laboriosa and T. jaculator, with new synonymies of genus Tetragnatha (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) in the Neotropical region. Journal of Natural History 54(47-48): 3031-3057. doi:10.1080/00222933.2021.1890252 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chickering, A. M. (1962). The genus Tetragnatha (Araneae, Argiopidae) in Jamaica, W. I. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 127(8): 423-450. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2020t). The Tetragnathidae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 46 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7578068 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2023a). The Tetragnathidae of South Africa. Version 2. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 50 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7513261 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Heinrichs, E. A. & Barrion, A. T. (2004). Rice-feeding insects and selected natural enemies in West Africa: biology, ecology, identification. International Rice Research Institute, Manila & Africa Rice Center, Abidjan, 242 pp. [spiders: pp. 192-222] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1945b). Arañas de Misiones, Corrientes y Entre Ríos. Revista del Museo de La Plata (N.S., Zool.) 4: 213-302. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Okuma, C. (1984). Notes on the African species of Tetragnatha (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Esakia 22: 87-93. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Okuma, C. (1987). A revision of the Australasian species of the genus Tetragnatha (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Esakia 25: 37-96. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Okuma, C. (1988c). A revision of the genus Tetragnatha Latreille (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) of Asia, Part II. Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture Kyushu University 32: 183-213. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Okuma, C. & Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (1988). Tetragnatha (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) in the collection of the Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria with a description of a new species. Phytophylactica 20: 219-232. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Okuma, C. (1992). Notes on the Neotropical and Mexican species of Tetragnatha (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) with descriptions of three new species. Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture Kyushu University 36: 219-243. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Okuma, C., Kamal, N. Q., Hirashima, Y., Alam, M. Z. & Ogata, K. (1993). Illustrated Monograph of the Rice Field Spiders of Bangladesh. Institute of Postgraduate Studies in Agriculture (Salna, Gazipur, Bangladesh). Japan International Cooperation Agency Project Publication, 1, 93 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tullgren, A. (1910). Araneae. In: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. Sjöstedts Kilimandjaro-Meru Expedition 20(6): 85-172, pl. 1-4. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6622 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zhu, M. S., Song, D. X. & Zhang, J. X. (2003). Fauna Sinica: Invertebrata Vol. 35: Arachnida: Araneae: Tetragnathidae. Science Press, Beijing, 418 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-03-07 Species distribution update Anju et al., 2024 n/a (Old value)
2023-03-15 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Tetragnatha riveti Berland, 1913
2023-01-27 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2023a n/a
2023-01-27 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020t n/a
2021-08-27 New taxonomic reference entry Castanheira & Baptista, 2021b n/a
2021-08-27 Species distribution update Castanheira & Baptista, 2021b n/a (Old value)
2021-08-27 Species synonymy Castanheira & Baptista, 2021b Tetragnatha lewisi synonymized with Tetragnatha jaculator
2021-08-27 Species synonymy Castanheira & Baptista, 2021b Tetragnatha riveti synonymized with Tetragnatha jaculator
2021-08-27 Species synonymy Castanheira & Baptista, 2021b Tetragnatha argyroides synonymized with Tetragnatha jaculator
2021-01-03 New taxonomic reference entry Heinrichs & Barrion, 2004 n/a