Tengella

This article is about the genus of spiders. For the West Africa leader, see Tenguella.

Tengella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Zoropsidae
Genus:	Tengella Dahl, 1901 [1]
Type species
T. perfuga Dahl, 1901
Species
5, see text
Synonyms [1]
Metafecenia F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 [2]

Tengella is a genus of false wolf spiders that was first described by Friedrich Dahl in 1901. ^[3] It is a senior synonym of Metafecenia. ^[2]

Species

As of September 2019 ^[update] it contains five species, found in Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Mexico: ^[1]

• Tengella albolineata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) ^[4] – Mexico
• Tengella kalebi Candia-Ramírez & Valdez-Mondragón, 2014 ^[5] – Mexico
• Tengella perfuga Dahl, 1901 ^[3] – Nicaragua
• Tengella radiata (Kulczyński, 1909) ^[6] – Honduras to Panama
• Tengella thaleri Platnick, 2009 ^[7] – Mexico

References

1. "Gen. Tengella Dahl, 1901". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-10-15.
2. Lehtinen, Pekka T. (1967). "Classification of the Cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4 (3): 248, 268. JSTOR   23731560.
3. Dahl, Friedrich (1901). "Nachtrag zur Uebersicht der Zoropsiden". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 1901: 251–253.
4. Pickard-Cambridge, Frederick O. (1902). "Metafecenia, gen. nov.". Araneida and Opiliones. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Vol. Arachnida. II. London. pp. 356–357; Pl. 33, Figs. 16, 17.{{cite book}}: External link in |postscript= (help)
5. Candia-Ramírez, Daniela T.; Valdez-Mondragón, Alejandro (2014). "A new troglobitic species of the spider genus Tengella Dahl (Araneae, Tengellidae) from Chiapas, Mexico". Zootaxa. 3764 (3): 377–386. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3764.3.7. PMID   24870640.
6. Kulczyński, Vl. (1909). "Fragmenta arachnologica, VII" (PDF). Bulletin de l'Académie des Sciences de Cracovie. Classe des Sciences mathématiques et naturelles. 1909: 447–450. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2018; Pl. 22, Fig. 18.
7. Platnick, Norman I. (2009). "A review of the spider genus Tengella (Araneae: Tengellidae)" (PDF). Contributions to Natural History. 12: 1071–1090. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 May 2013.

Further reading

• Leister, Matthew; Mallis, Rachael; Miller, Kelly (2013). "The male of Tengella perfuga Dahl, 1901 with re-description of the female and comparisons with T. radiata (Kulczynski, 1909) (Araneae: Tengellidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3709 (2): 185–199. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3709.2.6. PMID   26240905. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-28. Retrieved 2017-08-27.
• Wolff, Robert J. (1977). "The Cribellate Genus Tengella (Araneae: Tengellidae?)" (PDF). The Journal of Arachnology. 5 (2): 139–144. JSTOR   3705158.
• Polotow, Daniele; Carmichael, Anthea; Griswold, Charles E. (2015). "Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of Lycosoidea spiders (Araneae, Entelegynae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 29 (2): 124–163. doi: 10.1071/IS14041 .