Tenuiphantes zelatus

• Main Author: Slowik, Jozef
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Araneae; Linyphiidae; Tenuiphantes; Tenuiphantes zelatus; Pacific; Prince of Wales Island; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3717196; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3717196

Tenuiphantes zelatus (Zorch, 1937) Fig. 1–4. Lepthyphantes zelata Zorsch 1937 Lepthyphantes zelatus Roewer 1942 Tenuiphantes zelatus Saaristo and Tanasevitch 1996 Type. Male with male and 12 female allotypes. Sol Duc Hot Springs, Washington, USA. 12 August 1927. Coll: C. R. Crosby. In AMNH. Examined. Specimens measured. USA: Alaska: 1 male, Prince of Wales Island, Staney Ck. 1B, 55.872°N 133.06523°W 77 m elv., 12–27 June 2010 coll: J. Stockbridge, C. Bickford, clear cut, pitfall 4, UAM: Ento:227012; 1 male, Prince of Wales Island, Luck Pt., 55.98256°N 132.77943°W 129 m elv., 9 July–1 Aug 2010 coll: J. Stockbridge, C. Bickford, 2nd growth, pitfall 2, UAM: Ento:227024; 1 male, Prince of Wales Island, Staney Ck. 1B, 55.872°N 133.06523°W 77 m elv., 30 May–12 June 2010 coll: J. Stockbridge, C. Bickford, clear cut, pitfall 4, UAM: Ento:226958; 3 Female, Prince of Wales Island, Hatchery Ck. 2, 55.89356°N 132.9437°W 134 m elv., 2–29 June 2010 coll: J. Stockbridge, C. Bickford, 2nd growth, pitfall 1, UAM: Ento:226966; 1 male, Prince of Wales Island, Staney Ck., 55.79726°N 133.1363°W 50 m elv., 30 May–10 June 2010 coll: J. Stockbridge, C. Bickford, thin. 2nd growth, pitfall 3, UAM: Ento:226954; 1 male, Prince of Wales Island, Hatchery Ck. 4, 55.88602°N 132.8607°W 78 m elv., 14–27 June 2010 coll: J. Stockbridge, C. Bickford, old growth, pitfall 2, UAM: Ento:227007; 2 Female, Prince of Wales Island, Hatchery Ck. 2, 55.89356°N 132.9437°W 134 m elv., 2–29 June 2010 coll: J. Stockbridge, C. Bickford, 2nd growth, pitfall 2, UAM: Ento:226967. Diagnosis. Male T. zelatus can be distinguished from all other Tenuiphantes species in the Pacific Northwest by a paracymbium with a single basal denticle (Fig. 1 and 3, BDP) and a lamella characteristica with a right-angle bend prior to a rounded oblique ventral fork and a single dorsal fork originating near the right-angle bend and curving along the lamella characteristica (Fig. 2). Males of T. zibus lack any denticles on the paracymbium and have an additional dorsal fork originating near ...