Tetragnathidae  Menge, 1866 / Tetragnatha  Latreille, 1804   20 species

Tetragnatha shoshone  Levi, 1981

Description
Male

Colouration as in females.

Body length male: 5.4-8.8 mm
Female

Prosoma, sternum and legs yellowish. Opisthosma evenly covered with tiny silver pigment spots, except for cardiac area and a narrow ventral band to spinnerets.

Body length female: 8.6-12.3 mm
Additional information

This species was first described by Levi (1981) for North America and later detected in a few European locations (Uhl et al. 1992). It can be considered to be of North American origin (alien species) but may also be a Holarctic species. Therefore, it is listed here as cryptogenic.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): USA, Canada, Europe, Kazakhstan, Iran, Mongolia, China
Phenology
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Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Austria   (no references) ||| Bulgaria   (Naumova et al., 2021) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| France   (no references) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| North Macedonia   (Blagoev, 2002) ||| Poland   (Hajdamowicz, 2009) ||| Romania   (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Slovakia   (no references) ||| Sweden   (Almquist, 2005) |||
References

Almquist S (2005) Swedish Araneae, part 1 – families Atypidae to Hahniidae (Linyphiidae excluded). Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 62: 1-124 pdf

Blagoev G (2002) Check list of Macedonian spiders (Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 54: 9-34 pdf

Bosmans R (2014a) Tetragnatha shoshone Levi, 1981 nouvelle espèce pour la France (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 1: 11-12 pdf

Hajdamowicz I (2009) Tetragnatha shoshone Levi, 1981, a new spider species of longjawed orbweavers (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) in Poland. Polish Journal of Entomology 78: 169-175 pdf

Levi H W (1981) The American orb-weaver genera Dolichognatha and Tetragnatha north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae, Tetragnathinae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 149: 271-318 pdf

Naumova M, Blagoev G, Deltshev D (2021) Fifty spider species new to the Bulgarian fauna, with a review of some dubious species (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 4984: 228-257 pdf

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html pdf

Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184 pdf

Sozontov A N, Esyunin S L (2015) Taxonomical remarks about two spider species from the genus Tetragnatha Latreille 1804 (Aranei, Tetragnathidae). Entomological Review 95: 406-414 pdf

Uhl G, Sacher P, Weiss I, Kraus O (1992) Europäische Vorkommen von Tetragnatha shoshone (Arachnida, Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 33: 247-261 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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