Tetragnatha aetherea ( Simon, 1894 )

Dimitrov, Dimitar, Álvarez-Padilla, Fernando & Hormiga, Gustavo, 2008, Until dirt do us apart: On the unremarkable palp morphology of the spider Sternospina concretipalpis Schmidt & Krause, 1993, with comments on the genus Prionolaema Simon, 1894 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae), Zootaxa 1698, pp. 49-56 : 53

Tetragnatha aetherea ( Simon, 1894) new combination

( Fig. 2 A–B)

Prionolaema aetherea Simon, 1894a: 725 .

P. a. Simon, 1895g: 150.

Types. Subadult male holotype from Venezuela, collected in Tovar (MNHN 10128, examined).

Justification of the transfer: The type specimen of this species is a subadult male which makes impossible the study of the adult palpal morphology ( Fig. 2 A–B). However, based on general somatic morphology (eyes distribution, abdomen shape, cheliceral shape and lack of feathered trichobothria on femora IV) this specimen should be placed in the genus Tetragnatha .

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FIGURE 2. Tetragnatha aetherea (Simon, 1894), subadult male (holotype). A, habitus, lateral. B, palp, prolateral.