Wagneriana jelskii, (TACZANOWSKI, 1873)

Cabra-García, Jimmy & Hormiga, Gustavo, 2020, Exploring the impact of morphology, multiple sequence alignment and choice of optimality criteria in phylogenetic inference: a case study with the Neotropical orb-weaving spider genus Wagneriana (Araneae: Araneidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 188, pp. 976-1151 : 1096

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WAGNERIANA JELSKII ( TACZANOWSKI, 1873) View in CoL

( FIGS 30J, 32I, 41E, F, 50F, 53D, 57D, 61I, 71B, 90, 101C, D, 104B, 133E, F)

Epeira jelskii Taczanowski, 1873: 139 , pl. 5, fig. 17 (male lectotype from Cayenne GoogleMaps , French Guiana, [4°55′N, 52°18′W], elevation [20 m], deposited in PAN, not examined).

Wagneriana jelskii View in CoL : Caporiacco, 1954: 97, fig. 20; Levi 1991: 380, figs 35–39; World Spider Catalog, 2019.

Wagneriana bamba Levi, 1991: 383 View in CoL , figs 45–48, synon. nov. (female holotype from Quebrada Castillo GoogleMaps , NW Iscozacin, Huancabamba, Pasco, Peru, 10°10′S, 75°15 ′W, elevation 345 m, 13.ix.1987, D. Silva leg., deposited in MUSM 0507341 , examined).

Justification for synonymy: Study of the holotype of W. bamba View in CoL revealed that the diagnostic character suggested by Levi (1991) for this species, i.e. the oval shape of the epigynal median plate, is a position artefact. When the epigynum is observed at a different angle, the heart shape of the median plate, characteristic of the species W. jelskii View in CoL ( Fig. 133E), is evident.