Tengella Explained

Tengella is a genus of false wolf spiders that was first described by Friedrich Dahl in 1901. It is a senior synonym of Metafecenia.

Species

it contains five species, found in Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Mexico:^[1]

• Tengella albolineata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Mexico
• Tengella kalebi Candia-Ramírez & Valdez-Mondragón, 2014 – Mexico
• Tengella perfuga Dahl, 1901 – Nicaragua
• Tengella radiata (Kulczyński, 1909) – Honduras to Panama
• Tengella thaleri Platnick, 2009 – Mexico

Further reading

• Leister. Matthew. Mallis. Rachael. Miller. Kelly. The male of Tengella perfuga Dahl, 1901 with re-description of the female and comparisons with T. radiata (Kulczynski, 1909) (Araneae: Tengellidae). Zootaxa. 2013. 3709. 2. 185–199. 10.11646/zootaxa.3709.2.6. 26240905.
• Wolff. Robert J.. The Cribellate Genus Tengella (Araneae: Tengellidae?). The Journal of Arachnology. 1977. 5. 2. 139–144. 3705158.
• Polotow. Daniele. Carmichael. Anthea. Griswold. Charles E.. Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of Lycosoidea spiders (Araneae, Entelegynae). Invertebrate Systematics. 2015. 29. 2. 124–163. 10.1071/IS14041. free.

Notes and References

1. Gen. Tengella Dahl, 1901. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-10-15. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.