Andronova alberta
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| Andronova alberta | |
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| From British Columbia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Lathyidae |
| Genus: | Andronova |
| Species: | A. alberta |
| Binomial name | |
| Andronova alberta (Gertsch, 1946) | |
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Andronova alberta is a species of spider in the family Lathyidae.[1] It is found across the northern regions of North America and northern Asia.[1]
The species was originally described as Lathys pallida by Emerton in 1894, but this name was preoccupied by another species.[2] In 1946, Gertsch provided the replacement name Lathys alberta.[3] In 1947, Chamberlin and Ivie described what they believed to be a separate species, Argenna matanuska, but this was later determined to be synonymous with A. alberta.[4]
In 2025, Katherine Montana and colleagues conducted a major phylogenetic study of the Dictynidae family and transferred the species to the newly established genus Andronova in the newly erected family Lathyidae. This taxonomic revision was based on molecular phylogenetic analysis using ultraconserved elements and morphological evidence.[5]