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Genus: Larinia Simon, 1874 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Larinia dasia (Roberts, 1983)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016252

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Described:

Distribution: Seychelles (Aldabra), Madagascar

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Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f (1978.11.1.33) - (Roberts, 1983)

Taxonomic References

Drexelia dasia Roberts, 1983: 262, f. 160-161 (Df) Original description

Larinia dasia Harrod, Levi & Leibensperger, 1991: 243 (T from Drexelia, by S of the genus)

Larinia dasia Saaristo, 2010: 39, f. 4.24-25 (f)

Larinia dasia Escobar-Toledo & Pett, 2024: 1313, f. 1-5 (f)

References

Escobar-Toledo, J. & Pett, B. L. (2024). Contributions to the Larinia-group (Araneae: Araneidae) in Madagascar, with the description of two new species. Arachnology 19(9): 1312-1317. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.19.9.1312 -- Show included taxa

Harrod, J. C., Levi, H. W. & Leibensperger, L. B. (1991). The Neotropical orbweavers of the genus Larinia (Araneae: Araneidae). Psyche, Cambridge 97(3-4, 1990): 241-265. doi: 10.1155/1990/25941 -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1983). Spiders of the families Theridiidae, Tetragnathidae and Araneidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Aldabra atoll. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 77(3): 217-291. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1983.tb00099.x -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (2010). Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-11-04	New taxonomic reference entry	Escobar-Toledo & Pett, 2024
2024-11-04	Species distribution update	Escobar-Toledo & Pett, 2024	Old value