New records and extension of geographic scope for spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Hispaniola, Greater Antilles
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As a result of the identification and cataloguing of the spiders collection of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santo Domingo (MNHNSD) and the revision of additional material from the Dominican Republic, four genera occurring in Central America and the West Indies but unknown for Hispaniola Island are reported as new for this island: Masteria L. Koch, 1873 (Dipluridae), Strotarchus Simon, 1888 (Miturgidae), only known from the fossil fauna, Lygromma Simon, 1893 (Prodidomidae) and Peckhamia Simon, 1901 (Salticidae). The finding of these new records elevates to 310 species and 43 families of spiders reported for Hispaniola Island. The geographic limits of other three endemic species: Wulfila gracilipes (Banks, 1903) (Anyphaenidae), Mimetus hispaniolae Bryant, 1948 (Mimetidae) and Ariadna multispinosa Bryant, 1948 (Segestriidae) are enlarged. The two first ones were known only from the type locality.
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Alayón García, G. 1995b. Nuevo género de Agelenidae (Arachnida: Araneae) de República Dominicana. Poeyana 450: 1-8.
Alayón García, G. 2002a. Nueva especie de Odo Keyserling (Araneae: Zoridae) de República Dominicana. Revista Ibérica Aracnología 5: 29-32.
Alayón García, G. 2002b. Las arañas endémicas de Cuba (Arachnida: Araneae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 2: 1-48.
Alayón García, G. 2004. Notas sobre la familia Ctenidae (Arachnida: Araneae) en La Hispaniola, con la descripción de tres nuevas especies. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 9: 277-283.
Alayón García, G. 2007. Especie nueva de Pozonia (Araneae: Araneidae) para República Dominicana. Solenodon 6: 41-44.
Alayón García, G., L. F. De Armas & A. J. Abud Antun. 2001. Presencia de Cyrtophora citrícola (Förskal) (Araneae: Araneidae) en las Antillas. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 4: 9-10.
Ausserer, A. 1875. Zweiter Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Arachnidenfamilie der Territelariæ Thorell (Mygalidæ Autor). Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien 25: 125-206.
Banks, N. 1903. A list of the Arachnida from Haiti, with descriptions of new species. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sciences Philadelphia 55: 340-345.
Berman, J. D. y H. W. Levi. 1971. The orbweaver genus Neoscona (Araneidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 141:465-500.
Bryant, E. B. 1943. The salticid spiders of Hispaniola. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 92: 445-522.
Bryant, E. B. 1945. The Argiopidae of Hispaniola. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 95: 357-418.
Bryant, E. B. 1948. The spiders of Hispaniola. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 100: 332-447.
Chickering, A. 1967. The genus Nops (Araneae, Caponiidae) in Panama and the West Indies. Brev. Mus. Comp. Zool. 272: 1-19.
Coyle, F. A. 1995. A revision of the funnelweb mygalomorph spider subfamily Ischnothelinae (Araneae, Dipluridae). Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 226: 1-133.
Exline, H. y H. W. Levi 1962. American spiders of the genus Argyrodes (Araneae: Theridiidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 127: 75-204.
Gertsch, W. J. 1941. Report on some Arachnida from Barro Colorado Island. Amer. Mus. Novit., 1146: 114.
Gertsch, W. J. y F. Ennik 1983. The spider genus Loxosceles in North America, Central America and the West Indies (Araneae, Loxoscelidae). Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 175: 264-360.
Hormiga, G., F. Alvarez-Padilla y S. P. Benjamin. 2007. First records of extant Hispaniolan spiders of the families Mysmenidae, Symphytognathidae, and Ochyroceratidae (Araneae), including a new species of Ochyrocera. American Museum Novitates 3577: 1-21.
Huber, B. A. 2000. New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): A revision at generic level. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 254: 1-348.
Huber, B.A. y J. Wunderlich. 2006. Fossil and extant species of the genus Leptopholcus in the Dominican Republic, with the first cases of egg-parasitism in pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae). Journal of Natural History 40: 2341-2360.
Levi, H. W. 1954. The spider genus Theridula in North and Central America and the West Indies (Araneae: Theridiidae). Trans. Amer. Microsc. Soc. 73: 331-343.
Levi, H. W. 1955. The spider genera Episinus and Spintharus from North America, Central America and the West Indies (Araneae: Theridiidae). J. New York Entomol. Soc. 62: 65-90.
Levi, H. W. 1957. The spider genera Chrysso and Tidarren in America (Araneae: Theridiidae). J. New York Entomol. Soc. 63: 59-81.
Levi, H. W. 1959. The spider genera Achaearanea, Theridion and Sphyrotinus from Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 121: 55-163.
Levi, H. W. 1963a. The American spider genera Spintharus and Thwaitesia. Psyche 70: 223-234.
Levi, H. W. 1963b. The American spiders of the genus Theridion (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 129: 483-592.
Levi, H. W. 1964. The spider genus Thymoites in America (Aranae: Theridiidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 130: 445-471.
Levi, H. W. 1977. The American orb-weaver genera Cyclosa, Metazygia and Eustala North of Mexico (Araneae, Araneidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 148: 61-127.
Levi, H. W. 1986. The Neotropical orb-weaver genera Chrysometa and Homalometa (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool.151: 91-215.
Levi, H. W. 1991a. The Neotropical and Mexican species of the orb-weaver genera Araneus, Dubiepeira new genus, and Aculepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 152: 167-315.
Levi, H. W. 1991b. The Neotropical orb-weaver genera Edricus and Wagneriana (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 152: 363-415.
Levi, H. W. 1995. The Neotropical orbweaver genus Metazygia (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 154: 63-151.
Levi, H. W. 1999. The Neotropical and Mexican orb weavers of the genera Cyclosa and Allocyclosa (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 155: 299 -379.
Levi, H. W. 2001. The orb weavers of the genera Molinaranea and Nicolepeira, a new species of Parawixia, and comments on orb weavers of temperate South America (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 155: 445-475.
Muma, M. H. 1953. A study of the spider family Selenopidae in North America, Central America, and the West Indies. Amer. Mus. Novit. 1629: 1-55.
Peckham, G. W. y E. G. Peckham.1909. Revision of the Attidae of North America. Trans. Wiscons. Acad. Sci. Arts Let.16 (1): 355-655.
Penney, D. 1999. Hypotheses for the Recent Hispaniolan spider fauna based on the Dominican Republic amber spider fauna. Journal of Arachnology 27: 64-70.
Penney, D. 2004. New extant and fossil Dominican Republic spider records, with two new synonymies and comments on taphonomic bias of amber preservation. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 9: 183-190.
Penney, D. Y D.E. Pérez-Gelabert. 2002. Comparison of the Recent and Miocene Hispaniolan spider faunas. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 6: 203-223.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1911. A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 29: 1-791.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1928. The Antillean spider fauna, a study in geographic isolation. Science 68: 650.
Platnick, N. I. 2007. The world spider catalog, version 7.5. American Museum of Natural History, disponible en: http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html.
Platnick, N. I. y M. U. Shadab 1974. A revision of the bispinosus and bicolor groups of the spider genus Trachelas in North and Central America and the West Indies. Amer. Mus. Novitates 2560: 1-34.
Platnick, N. I. y M. U. Shadab. 1976. A revision of the spider genera Lygromma and Neozimiris (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Amer. Mus. Novitates 2598: 1-23.
Platnick, N. I. Y M. U. Shadab 1980. A revision of the spider genus Cesonia (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 165: 335-386.
Sánchez-Ruiz, A. 2005. Una nueva especie de Nops MacLeay, 1839 (Araneae, Caponiidae) de República Dominicana. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 11: 23-27.
Simon, E. 1888. Etudes arachnologiques. 21e mémoire. XXIX. Descriptions d'especes et de genres nouveaux de l'Amerique centrale et des Antilles. Ann. Soc. Ent. France 8: 202-216.
Simon, E. 1895. Histoire Naturelle des Araignées Volume 1, part 4. Paris.
Simon, E. 1903. Histoire Naturelle des Araignées, Volume 2, part 4. Paris.
Strand, E. 1909. Neue oder wenig bekannte südamerikanische Cupiennius- und Ctenus-Arten. Zool. Jahrb. Syst. 28: 293-328.
Strand, E. 1916. Systematische-faunistiche Studien über paläarktische, afrikanische und amerikanische Spinnen des Senckenbergischen Museums. Arch. Naturg. 81 (A9): 1-153.
Alayón García, G. 1995a. Adiciones a la familia Prodidomidae (Arachnida: Araneae) en Cuba. Poeyana 451: 1-7.
Alayón García, G. 1995b. Nuevo género de Agelenidae (Arachnida: Araneae) de República Dominicana. Poeyana 450: 1-8.
Alayón García, G. 2002a. Nueva especie de Odo Keyserling (Araneae: Zoridae) de República Dominicana. Revista Ibérica Aracnología 5: 29-32.
Alayón García, G. 2002b. Las arañas endémicas de Cuba (Arachnida: Araneae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 2: 1-48.
Alayón García, G. 2004. Notas sobre la familia Ctenidae (Arachnida: Araneae) en La Hispaniola, con la descripción de tres nuevas especies. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 9: 277-283.
Alayón García, G. 2007. Especie nueva de Pozonia (Araneae: Araneidae) para República Dominicana. Solenodon 6: 41-44.
Alayón García, G., L. F. De Armas & A. J. Abud Antun. 2001. Presencia de Cyrtophora citrícola (Förskal) (Araneae: Araneidae) en las Antillas. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 4: 9-10.
Ausserer, A. 1875. Zweiter Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Arachnidenfamilie der Territelariæ Thorell (Mygalidæ Autor). Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien 25: 125-206.
Banks, N. 1903. A list of the Arachnida from Haiti, with descriptions of new species. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sciences Philadelphia 55: 340-345.
Berman, J. D. y H. W. Levi. 1971. The orbweaver genus Neoscona (Araneidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 141:465-500.
Bryant, E. B. 1943. The salticid spiders of Hispaniola. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 92: 445-522.
Bryant, E. B. 1945. The Argiopidae of Hispaniola. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 95: 357-418.
Bryant, E. B. 1948. The spiders of Hispaniola. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 100: 332-447.
Chickering, A. 1967. The genus Nops (Araneae, Caponiidae) in Panama and the West Indies. Brev. Mus. Comp. Zool. 272: 1-19.
Coyle, F. A. 1995. A revision of the funnelweb mygalomorph spider subfamily Ischnothelinae (Araneae, Dipluridae). Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 226: 1-133.
Exline, H. y H. W. Levi 1962. American spiders of the genus Argyrodes (Araneae: Theridiidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 127: 75-204.
Gertsch, W. J. 1941. Report on some Arachnida from Barro Colorado Island. Amer. Mus. Novit., 1146: 114.
Gertsch, W. J. y F. Ennik 1983. The spider genus Loxosceles in North America, Central America and the West Indies (Araneae, Loxoscelidae). Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 175: 264-360.
Hormiga, G., F. Alvarez-Padilla y S. P. Benjamin. 2007. First records of extant Hispaniolan spiders of the families Mysmenidae, Symphytognathidae, and Ochyroceratidae (Araneae), including a new species of Ochyrocera. American Museum Novitates 3577: 1-21.
Huber, B. A. 2000. New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): A revision at generic level. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 254: 1-348.
Huber, B.A. y J. Wunderlich. 2006. Fossil and extant species of the genus Leptopholcus in the Dominican Republic, with the first cases of egg-parasitism in pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae). Journal of Natural History 40: 2341-2360.
Levi, H. W. 1954. The spider genus Theridula in North and Central America and the West Indies (Araneae: Theridiidae). Trans. Amer. Microsc. Soc. 73: 331-343.
Levi, H. W. 1955. The spider genera Episinus and Spintharus from North America, Central America and the West Indies (Araneae: Theridiidae). J. New York Entomol. Soc. 62: 65-90.
Levi, H. W. 1957. The spider genera Chrysso and Tidarren in America (Araneae: Theridiidae). J. New York Entomol. Soc. 63: 59-81.
Levi, H. W. 1959. The spider genera Achaearanea, Theridion and Sphyrotinus from Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 121: 55-163.
Levi, H. W. 1963a. The American spider genera Spintharus and Thwaitesia. Psyche 70: 223-234.
Levi, H. W. 1963b. The American spiders of the genus Theridion (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 129: 483-592.
Levi, H. W. 1964. The spider genus Thymoites in America (Aranae: Theridiidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 130: 445-471.
Levi, H. W. 1977. The American orb-weaver genera Cyclosa, Metazygia and Eustala North of Mexico (Araneae, Araneidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 148: 61-127.
Levi, H. W. 1986. The Neotropical orb-weaver genera Chrysometa and Homalometa (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool.151: 91-215.
Levi, H. W. 1991a. The Neotropical and Mexican species of the orb-weaver genera Araneus, Dubiepeira new genus, and Aculepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 152: 167-315.
Levi, H. W. 1991b. The Neotropical orb-weaver genera Edricus and Wagneriana (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 152: 363-415.
Levi, H. W. 1995. The Neotropical orbweaver genus Metazygia (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 154: 63-151.
Levi, H. W. 1999. The Neotropical and Mexican orb weavers of the genera Cyclosa and Allocyclosa (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 155: 299 -379.
Levi, H. W. 2001. The orb weavers of the genera Molinaranea and Nicolepeira, a new species of Parawixia, and comments on orb weavers of temperate South America (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 155: 445-475.
Muma, M. H. 1953. A study of the spider family Selenopidae in North America, Central America, and the West Indies. Amer. Mus. Novit. 1629: 1-55.
Peckham, G. W. y E. G. Peckham.1909. Revision of the Attidae of North America. Trans. Wiscons. Acad. Sci. Arts Let.16 (1): 355-655.
Penney, D. 1999. Hypotheses for the Recent Hispaniolan spider fauna based on the Dominican Republic amber spider fauna. Journal of Arachnology 27: 64-70.
Penney, D. 2004. New extant and fossil Dominican Republic spider records, with two new synonymies and comments on taphonomic bias of amber preservation. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 9: 183-190.
Penney, D. Y D.E. Pérez-Gelabert. 2002. Comparison of the Recent and Miocene Hispaniolan spider faunas. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 6: 203-223.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1911. A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 29: 1-791.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1928. The Antillean spider fauna, a study in geographic isolation. Science 68: 650.
Platnick, N. I. 2007. The world spider catalog, version 7.5. American Museum of Natural History, disponible en: http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html.
Platnick, N. I. y M. U. Shadab 1974. A revision of the bispinosus and bicolor groups of the spider genus Trachelas in North and Central America and the West Indies. Amer. Mus. Novitates 2560: 1-34.
Platnick, N. I. y M. U. Shadab. 1976. A revision of the spider genera Lygromma and Neozimiris (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Amer. Mus. Novitates 2598: 1-23.
Platnick, N. I. Y M. U. Shadab 1980. A revision of the spider genus Cesonia (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 165: 335-386.
Sánchez-Ruiz, A. 2005. Una nueva especie de Nops MacLeay, 1839 (Araneae, Caponiidae) de República Dominicana. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 11: 23-27.
Simon, E. 1888. Etudes arachnologiques. 21e mémoire. XXIX. Descriptions d'especes et de genres nouveaux de l'Amerique centrale et des Antilles. Ann. Soc. Ent. France 8: 202-216.
Simon, E. 1895. Histoire Naturelle des Araignées Volume 1, part 4. Paris.
Simon, E. 1903. Histoire Naturelle des Araignées, Volume 2, part 4. Paris.
Strand, E. 1909. Neue oder wenig bekannte südamerikanische Cupiennius- und Ctenus-Arten. Zool. Jahrb. Syst. 28: 293-328.
Strand, E. 1916. Systematische-faunistiche Studien über paläarktische, afrikanische und amerikanische Spinnen des Senckenbergischen Museums. Arch. Naturg. 81 (A9): 1-153.
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Sánchez-Ruiz, A. (2009). New records and extension of geographic scope for spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Hispaniola, Greater Antilles. Novitates Caribaea, (2), 23–29. https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.v0i2.184
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