Glenognatha argyrostilba, new combination

• Main Authors: Jimmy Cabra-García, Antonio D. Brescovit
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Araneae; Tetragnathidae; Glenognatha; Glenognatha argyrostilba; St. Helena; Mira; Bryant; Darlington; Helena Island; St. Helena Island; Cuca; Vincent Islands
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5666936; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5666936

Glenognatha argyrostilba (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) new combination (Figs. 31–37, 131) Pachygnatha argyrostilba O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876: 573, pl. 59, fig. 8 (male lectotype and female paralectotype from Alexandria, Egypt, deposited in Hope Entomological Collection, Oxford, not examined). Dyschiriognatha argyrostilba: Simon, 1893: 324; Bosmans & Bosselaers 1994: 346, fig. 132–147; Saaristo 2003: 22, fig. 19– 20; Saaristo 2010: 233, fig. 36.24–26; Cabra-García et al. 2014: 1029, figs. 1C, 2B, 4 A, 5B–C, 7B; World Spider Catalog 2015. Pachygnatha (Dyschiriognatha) argyrostilba: Pavesi, 1895: 504. Dyschiriognatha montana Simon, 1897: 868 (male and female syntypes from St. Vincent Islands, Lesser Antilles, deposited in BMNH, examined through photographs of the habitus and male genitalia). New synonymy. Glenognatha mira Bryant, 1945: 405 (female holotype from Miragoane, Haiti, 2.xi.1934, Darlington leg., deposited in MCZ, examined). New synonymy. Dyschiriognatha atlantica Holm, 1969: 63, fig. 1–5 (male holotype from Sandy bay beach, St. Helena island, 11.i.1966, P. Basilewsky, P. Benoit & N. Leleup leg., deposited in MRAC, not examined); Benoit 1977: 160, figs. 69a–e. Synonymized by Bosmans & Bosselaers 1994. Glenognatha maelfaiti Baert, 1987: 141, figs. 1–7 (male holotype from Cerro Maternidad, Santa Cruz, Galápagos, Ecuador, 15.ii–1.iii-1986, deposited in RBINS, not examined, paratypes: 13♀ 2♂ 1 immature from Transect Pto. Ayora-Itabaca, zflank, Santa Cruz, Galápagos, Ecuador, 15.ii–1.iii-1986 Baert, Maelfait et Desender leg., deposited in RBINS 27047, examined; 36♀ 19♂ 5 immature from Santa Cruz, Galápagos, Ecuador, deposited in RBINS, not examined); Cabra-García et al. 2014: 1029, figs. 1N, 3B, 4E, 6C, 8G. New synonymy. Transfer justification. Study of D. argyrostilba specimens collected in Africa and drawings of the type material (see Bosmans & Bosselaers 1994), shows that this species has all the synapomorphies of the genus Glenognatha. Conductor (Figs. 35B–C, 37 A –B), embolus (Figs. 35D, ...