{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{About|the genus of spiders|the West Africa leader|Tenguella}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Tengella | authority = [[Friedrich Dahl|Dahl]], 1901<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''[[Tengella perfuga|T. perfuga]]'' | type_species_authority = Dahl, 1901 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 5, [[#Species|see text]] | synonyms = *''Metafecenia'' <small>[[Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge|F. O. Pickard-Cambridge]], 1902</small><ref name="Lehtinen, 1967" /> | synonyms_ref = <ref name=NMBE /> }}
'''''Tengella''''' is a [[genus]] of [[Zoropsidae|false wolf spiders]] that was first described by [[Friedrich Dahl]] in 1901.<ref name="Dahl, 1901" /> It is a senior synonym of ''Metafecenia''.<ref name="Lehtinen, 1967" />
==Species== {{as of|2019|09}} it contains five species, found in [[Panama]], [[Honduras]], [[Nicaragua]], and [[Mexico]]:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Tengella Dahl, 1901| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-10-15| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3236| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> *''[[Tengella albolineata]]'' <small>([[Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge|F. O. Pickard-Cambridge]], 1902)</small><ref name="Pickard-Cambridge, 1902" /> – Mexico *''[[Tengella kalebi]]'' <small>Candia-Ramírez & Valdez-Mondragón, 2014</small><ref name="Candia-Ramirez et al., 2014" /> – Mexico *''[[Tengella perfuga]]'' <small>Dahl, 1901</small><ref name="Dahl, 1901" /> – Nicaragua *''[[Tengella radiata]]'' <small>([[Władysław Kulczyński|Kulczyński]], 1909)</small><ref name="Kulczynski, 1909"/> – Honduras to Panama *''[[Tengella thaleri]]'' <small>Platnick, 2009</small><ref name="Platnick, 2009"/> – Mexico
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="Dahl, 1901">{{cite journal|last1=Dahl|first1=Friedrich|title=Nachtrag zur Uebersicht der Zoropsiden|journal=Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin|date=1901|volume=1901|pages=251–253|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8798659|author-link=Friedrich Dahl}}</ref> <ref name="Platnick, 2009">{{cite journal|last1=Platnick|first1=Norman I.|title=A review of the spider genus ''Tengella'' (Araneae: Tengellidae)|journal=Contributions to Natural History|date=2009|volume=12|pages=1071–1090|url=http://www.nmbe.ch/sites/default/files/uploads/pubinv/platnick.pdf|access-date=<!---27 August 2017--->|archive-date=8 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130508064408/http://www.nmbe.ch/sites/default/files/uploads/pubinv/platnick.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> <ref name="Kulczynski, 1909">{{cite journal|last1=Kulczyński|first1=Vl.|title=Fragmenta arachnologica, VII|journal=Bulletin de l'Académie des Sciences de Cracovie|date=1909|volume=1909|pages=447–450|url=http://www.museunacional.ufrj.br/mndi/Aracnologia/pdfliteratura/Kulczynski/Kulczynski%20%281909%29%20Fragmenta%20arachnologica%20VII.PDF|series=Classe des Sciences mathématiques et naturelles|postscript=; Pl. 22, Fig. 18.|access-date=<!---27 August 2017--->|archive-date=30 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930123316/http://www.museunacional.ufrj.br/mndi/Aracnologia/pdfliteratura/Kulczynski/Kulczynski%20(1909)%20Fragmenta%20arachnologica%20VII.PDF|url-status=dead}}</ref> <ref name="Pickard-Cambridge, 1902">{{cite book|last1=Pickard-Cambridge|first1=Frederick O.|title=Araneida and Opiliones|date=1902|location=London|pages=356–357|chapter-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/575928|chapter=''Metafecenia'', gen. nov.|postscript=; [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/576248 Pl. 33], Figs. 16, 17.|series=Biologia Centrali-Americana|volume=Arachnida. '''II'''}}</ref> <ref name="Candia-Ramirez et al., 2014">{{cite journal|last1=Candia-Ramírez|first1=Daniela T.|last2=Valdez-Mondragón|first2=Alejandro|title=A new troglobitic species of the spider genus ''Tengella'' Dahl (Araneae, Tengellidae) from Chiapas, Mexico|journal=Zootaxa|date=2014|volume=3764|issue=3|pages=377–386|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3764.3.7|pmid=24870640|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262694909}}</ref> <ref name="Lehtinen, 1967">{{cite journal|last1=Lehtinen|first1=Pekka T.|title=Classification of the Cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha|journal=Annales Zoologici Fennici|date=1967|volume=4|issue=3|pages=248, 268|jstor=23731560}}</ref> }}
==Further reading== * {{cite journal|last1=Leister|first1=Matthew|last2=Mallis|first2=Rachael|last3=Miller|first3=Kelly|title=The male of ''Tengella perfuga'' Dahl, 1901 with re-description of the female and comparisons with ''T. radiata'' (Kulczynski, 1909) (Araneae: Tengellidae)|journal=Zootaxa|date=2013|volume=3709|issue=2|pages=185–199|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3709.2.6|pmid=26240905|url=http://www.kellymillerlab.com/pdf/72_tengella.pdf|archive-date=2017-08-28|access-date=2017-08-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828010709/http://www.kellymillerlab.com/pdf/72_tengella.pdf|url-status=dead}} * {{cite journal|last1=Wolff|first1=Robert J.|title=The Cribellate Genus ''Tengella'' (Araneae: Tengellidae?)|journal=The Journal of Arachnology|date=1977|volume=5|issue=2|pages=139–144|jstor=3705158|url=http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v5_n2/JoA_v5_p139.pdf}} * {{cite journal|last1=Polotow|first1=Daniele|last2=Carmichael|first2=Anthea|last3=Griswold|first3=Charles E.|title=Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of Lycosoidea spiders (Araneae, Entelegynae)|journal=Invertebrate Systematics|date=2015|volume=29|issue=2|pages=124–163|doi=10.1071/IS14041|doi-access=free}}
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[[Category:Zoropsidae]] [[Category:Zoropsidae genera]] [[Category:Spiders of Mexico]] [[Category:Spiders of Central America]] [[Category:Taxa named by Friedrich Dahl]]
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