Harpactea Bristowe, 1939
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7804272 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039CE028-E872-FFC0-FF12-FD83FE46629E |
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Plazi |
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Harpactea Bristowe, 1939 |
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Genus Harpactea Bristowe, 1939 View in CoL View at ENA
Type species Dysdera latreillii Blackwall, 1832 , by original designation.
Remarks. Harpactea hombergii is currently stated as the type species of the genus Harpactea ( World Spider Catalog 2021). It is through synonymy of Aranea hombergii and Dysdera latreillii . Templeton (1835) described a new dysderid genus Harpactes for Dysdera latreillii . He was not sure whether his specimens were conspecific with Blackwall’s (1832) Dysdera latreillii , therefore he called it D. latreillii with question mark. Vigors (in Templeton 1835), the editor of the paper, emended the name to D. templetoni . Later, Bristowe (1939) noticed that the name Harpactes was already preoccupied, so he replaced it with Harpactea . In summary, the type species of the genus Harpactea is undoubtedly Dysdera latreillii , not Aranea hombergii (see also Thaler & Knoflach 2002, Řezáč et al. 2014).
Diagnostic characters. Diagnostic characters of Harpactea include the body size, colour of prosoma, leg spination and the shape of male chelicerae and copulatory organs. Harpactea are usually small to medium size spiders (carapace length 1.3–2.3 mm, although members of the group rubicunda from the eastern Meditteranean are usuay larger), with a homogeneous body shape ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ), although some species have elongated body and appendages (e.g., Fig. 1C View FIGURE 1 ). The prosoma is brown or yellow, usually darker in the anterior part. The abdomen shows no color patterns, its cuticle is hardly pigmented, so that grey or brownish midgut is visible. The shape of the chelicerae and the arrangement of the cheliceral teeth are uniform and characteristic for the majority of species of the genus (see the fageli type below).
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