Nannaria minor Chamberlin, 1918
Nannaria minor Chamberlin, 1918
Männchen
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- Name der Erstbeschreibung: Nannaria minor Chamberlin, 1918
- Holotypus: Männchen
- Typenfundort: USA: Tennessee, Burbank
- Etymologie: Chamberlin (1918) gave no etymology for his name, N. minor, though it is reasonable to assume that he named both the genus and the species for its small size in relation to other xystodesmids. Why Chamberlin would feel the need to reiterate the small nature of the species is unknown. One possibility is that Chamberlin may have chosen the specific name after the Latin word minor for "smaller" to differentiate it from a second species he described in the same paper N. media Chamberlin, 1918 (now Boraria stricta) which was slightly larger than N. minor, but not as large as the third species he described, N. infesta (now Howellaria infesta). Thus, minor was the smallest of the three species, media (from the Latin medi- meaning middle) was the middle-sized species, and infesta was the largest. If this hypothesis is true it is a mystery to the authors why Chamberlin broke the pattern with infesta, though the fungal infestation of the infesta type may have offered up too good of a species epithet to pass up.
- Paratypus:Weibchen
- Beschrieben: Männchen und Weibchen
- Deutscher Name: nicht bekannt
- Taxonomischer Rang: Art
- Taxonomischer Status: gültig
- Datenquelle: Means et al. (2021)
