Taxon details
Nigma puella (Simon, 1870)
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2024-06-17
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022515]
- Distribution: Azores, Madeira, Canary Is., Europe, Algeria, Tunisia
- External Resources *:
- It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France
- Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Dictyna lobensis Schmidt, 1976, 1 f (29120-94)
- Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Nigma canariensis Wunderlich, 1987, 1 m (37263-94)
- Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Nigma eburnea Schmidt, 1982, 1 f (31609-94)
- Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Nigma canariensis Wunderlich, 1987, 2 f (37216-94); 1 f (37218-94); 1 f (37230-94); 1 f (37244-94); 3 m (37247-94); 1 m (37261-94); 1 m, 3 f (37272-94)
- Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Nigma eburnea Schmidt, 1982, 1 f (31610-94)
Dictyna puella Simon, 1874a: 180, pl. 3, f. 4 (f).
Dictyna puella Kulczyński, 1899: 330, pl. 6, f. 7, 10 (f, Dm).
Dictyna puella Simon, 1914: 51, 64, f. 98-99 (mf).
Dictyna puella Locket & Millidge, 1951: 64, f. 23B, 26A-B, E, 27A (mf).
Heterodictyna puella Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958: 47 (Tmf from Dictyna).
Nigma puella Lehtinen, 1967: 252 (Tmf from Heterodictyna).
Dictyna lobensis Schmidt, 1976: 321, f. 4 (Df).
Dictyna eburnea Schmidt, 1982: 394, f. 2 (Df).
Nigma puella Roberts, 1985: 52, f. 15a (mf).
Nigma canariensis Wunderlich, 1987a: 226, f. 593-596a (Dmf).
Nigma puella Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 380, f. 988 (m).
Nigma puella Wunderlich, 1992a: 429 (S).
Nigma puella Millidge, 1993c: 154, f. 55 (f).
Nigma puella Roberts, 1995: 86, f. (mf).
Nigma puella Roberts, 1998: 88, f. (mf).
Nigma puella Wunderlich, 2011: 313, f. 4, 6, 9, 13, 18 (m).
Nigma puella Russell-Smith, 2017: 17, f. 2A (m).
Nigma puella Breitling, 2020: 342, f. 7C (f).
Nigma puella Rehfeldt & Cassar, 2024: 22, f. 7a-b, 40d (f).
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 
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Chamberlin, R. V. & Gertsch, W. J. (1958). The spider family Dictynidae in America north of Mexico. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 116: 1-152. [second pdf contains better scans of the plates] -- Show included taxa
Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. -- Show included taxa
Kulczyński, W. (1899). Arachnoidea opera Rev. E. Schmitz collecta in insulis Maderianis et in insulis Selvages dictis. Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzen Wydzialu Matematyczno Przyrodniczego Akademji Umiejetnosci, Krakow 36: 319-461. -- Show included taxa
Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468. [second pdf: index and outline by V. D. Roth (unpubl.)] -- Show included taxa
Locket, G. H. & Millidge, A. F. (1951). British spiders. Vol. I. Ray Society, London, 310 pp. -- Show included taxa
Millidge, A. F. (1993c). Further remarks on the taxonomy and relationships of the Linyphiidae, based on the epigynal duct confirmations and other characters (Araneae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 9: 145-156. -- Show included taxa
Rehfeldt, S. & Cassar, T. (2024). A contribution to the arachnofauna (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones) of the Maltese Islands, with two new records for Europe. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 67: 18-47. doi:10.30963/aramit6704 -- Show included taxa
Roberts, M. J. (1985). The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1: Atypidae to Theridiosomatidae. Harley Books, Colchester, England, 229 pp. -- Show included taxa
Roberts, M. J. (1995). Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp. -- Show included taxa
Roberts, M. J. (1998). Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp. -- Show included taxa
Russell-Smith, A. (2017). The rediscovery of Nigma flavescens in Britain. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 140: 16-17. -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. (1976). Zur Spinnenfauna von Fuerteventura und Lobos. Zoologische Beiträge (N.F.) 22: 315-335. -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. (1982). Zur Spinnenfauna von La Palma. Zoologische Beiträge (N. F.) 27: 393-414. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1870b). Aranéides nouveaux ou peu connus du midi de l'Europe. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège (2) 3: 271-358. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1874a). Les arachnides de France. Paris 1, 1-272. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1914). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 1re partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-308. -- Show included taxa
Wunderlich, J. (1987a). Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen. Triops, Langen, 435 pp. -- Show included taxa
Wunderlich, J. (1992a). Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie und Evolution. Beiträge zur Araneologie 1: 1-619. -- Show included taxa
Wunderlich, J. (2011). Extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 6: 1-640. -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-17 | New taxonomic reference entry | Rehfeldt & Cassar, 2024 | n/a |
| 2024-06-17 | Species distribution update | n/a (Old value) | |
| 2020-03-23 | New taxonomic reference entry | Breitling, 2020 | n/a |
| 2018-01-08 | New taxonomic reference entry | Russell-Smith, 2017 | n/a |