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]
| Tengella | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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] | |
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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
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.
- 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.