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Issue: Vol. 1698 No. 1: 5 Feb. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-02-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1698.1.3
Page range: 49–56
Abstract views: 43
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Until dirt do us apart: On the unremarkable palp morphology of the spider Sternospina concretipalpis Schmidt & Krause, 1993, with comments on the genus Prionolaema Simon, 1894 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae)

Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20052, USA
Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20052, USA Schlinger Chair of Arachnology Postdoctoral Fellow, California Academy of Sciences, Department of Entomology, 875 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20052, USA
Araneae spiders Tetragnathidae systematics Antigua Comoros Islands

Abstract

Examination of the holotype of the tetragnathid spider Sternospina concretipalpis Schmidt & Krause, 1993 demonstrates that the extraordinary claim by the authors of the original description of this species that the male palps are fused is unfounded. The monotypic genus Sternospina Schmidt & Krause, 1993 is a junior synonym of Tylorida Simon, 1894 and S. concretipalpis is a junior synonym of the common species Tylorida striata (Thorell, 1877). The genus Prionolaema Simon, 1894 is a junior synonym of Tetragnatha Latreille, 1804, resulting in two new combinations, Tetragnatha aetherea (Simon, 1894) and T. gracilis (Bryant, 1923). Tetragnatha earmra Levi, 1981 is a junior synonym of Tetragnatha gracilis (Bryant, 1923).

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