Tetragnatha shoshone Levi, 1981
Description
Male
Colouration as in females.
Body length male: 5.4-8.8 mmFemale
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 mmAdditional 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
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levi 1981)
Embolus and conductor, ventral view
(Levi 1981)
Tip of conductor, mesal view
(Levi 1981)
Prosoma, frontal view
(Levi 1981)
Habitus, lateral view
(Levi 1981)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Levi 1981)
Vulva, ventral view
(Levi 1981)
Receptacula seminis, ventral view
(Levi 1981)
Prosoma, frontal view
(Levi 1981)
Habitus, lateral view
(Levi 1981)
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.
References
Almquist S (2006) Swedish Araneae, part 1 – families Atypidae to Hahniidae (Linyphiidae excluded). Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 62(2005): 1-284 
Blagoev G (2002) Check list of Macedonian spiders (Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 54: 9-34
Bosmans R (2014a) Tetragnatha shoshone Levi, 1981 nouvelle espèce pour la France (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 1: 11-12
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
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
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
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.
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
Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184
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
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
WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2