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