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Metellina barreti (Kulczynski, 1899)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Meta barreti Kulczynski, 1899

 

Considered under the genus Metellina by (Marusik & Larsen, 2018:209), which is followed here.

 

Conservation Status

Missing (Cardoso et al., 2018)

Last record: 1987 (Cardoso et al., 2018)

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)

 

Distribution

Madeira Island, Portugal

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

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.

 

Other references:

Cardoso, P., Crespo, L. C., Silva, I., Borges, P. and Boieiro, M. (2018). Meta barreti. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T58052741A58061267. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T58052741A58061267.en. Accessed on 29 July 2022.

Marusik, Yuri M. and Larsen, N. (2018). A synopsis of African Metellina (Aranei, Tetragnathidae, Metainae) with description of a new species from South Africa. Vestnik Zoologii 52(3): 205-216.

Schenkel, E. (1938). Die Arthropodenfauna von Madeira nach den Ergebnissen der Reise von Prof. Dr. O. Lundblad, Juli-August 1935. Arkiv för Zoologi 30(A7): 1-42.

Wunderlich, J. (1992). Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie und Evolution. Beiträge zur Araneologie 1: 1-619.

Wunderlich, J. (2008). Descriptions of fossil spider (Araneae) taxa mainly in Baltic amber, as well as on certain related extant taxa. Beiträge zur Araneologie 5: 44-139, 803-804, 813-818

 

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