Tetragnatha hasselti
| Tetragnatha hasselti | |
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| female from Malaysia | |
| male from Indonesia | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Tetragnathidae |
| Genus: | Tetragnatha |
| Species: | T. hasselti
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| Binomial name | |
| Tetragnatha hasselti Thorell, 1890
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| Synonyms | |
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Tetragnatha hasselti is a species of long-jawed orb weaver spider in the family Tetragnathidae. It has a wide distribution across Asia, from India to China and Indonesia (Sulawesi).[1]
Taxonomy
The species was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1890 from a female specimen collected at Gorontalo in Sulawesi, Indonesia.[2] The species was named in honor of A. W. M. Van Hasselt, who provided the type specimen to Thorell.[2]
Two species have been synonymized with T. hasselti: Tetragnatha aduncata Wang, 1991 was synonymized by Song, Zhu & Chen (1999),[3] and Tetragnatha zhuzhenrongi Barrion et al., 2013 was more recently synonymized by Lin et al. (2023).[4]
Distribution
T. hasselti is widely distributed across Asia. It has been recorded from India, China, and Indonesia (Sulawesi).[1] The species appears to be particularly common in rice field habitats across its range.[5]
Habitat
Tetragnatha hasselti is commonly found in rice fields and other agricultural habitats.[5][6]
Description
The original description by Thorell noted that females reach about 12 millimeters in total body length, with the cephalothorax measuring approximately 3.5 mm long and 1.5 mm wide.[2] The species is characterized by its distinctive chelicerae, which are long and strongly curved outward at the base, with a complex arrangement of teeth along the cheliceral furrow.[2]
The cephalothorax is dark brown to blackish, while the abdomen appears grayish-silver due to dense minute silvery-white spots scattered across a dark grayish-black background.[2] The legs are yellowish to reddish-testaceous.[2]
References
- ^ a b "Tetragnatha hasselti Thorell, 1890". World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 31 August 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f Thorell, T. (1890). "Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. IV, 1". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 28: 5–421.
- ^ Song, D. X.; Zhu, M. S.; Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Shijiazhuang: Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House. p. 640.
- ^ Lin, Y. J.; Wu, L. B.; Cai, D. C.; Li, S. Q.; Barrion, A. T.; Heong, K. L. (2023). "Review of 43 spider species from Hainan Island, China (Arachnida, Araneae)". Zootaxa. 5351 (5): 501–533. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5351.5.1.
- ^ a b Okuma, C.; Kamal, N. Q.; Hirashima, Y.; Alam, M. Z.; Ogata, K. (1993). Illustrated Monograph of the Rice Field Spiders of Bangladesh. Salna, Gazipur, Bangladesh: Institute of Postgraduate Studies in Agriculture.
- ^ Basu, D.; Raychaudhuri, D. (2016). "Rice land inhabiting long jawed orb weavers, Tetragnatha Latreille, 1804 (Tetragnathidae: Araneae) of South 24-Parganas, West Bengal, India". World Scientific News. 55: 210–239.