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Genus: Altella Simon, 1885 | Family: Argyronetidae Thorell, 1869

Altella hungarica Loksa, 1981

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022057

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Described:

Distribution: France, Germany, Hungary, Ukraine, Russia (Europe, Caucasus)

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Holotype: Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM), Budapest, Hungary m (could not be found) - (Kielhorn & Blick, 2024)

Taxonomic References

Altella hungarica Loksa, 1981b: 332, f. 1-11 (Dm) Original description

Altella hungarica Ponomarev, Prokopenko & Shmatko, 2017: 104, f. 1-7 (m, Df)

Altella hungarica Kielhorn & Blick, 2024: 6, f. 1a-c (m)

Altella hungarica Iorio et al., 2024: 10, f. 1A-G (mf)

References

Iorio, É., Déjean, S., Hénon, N., Danflous, S., Edo, M. & Zimmermann, C. (2024). Premières observations d’Altella hungarica Loksa, 1981 en France (Araneae, Dictynidae) et autres araignées intéressantes de la zone d’adhésion du Parc national de Port-Cros (Var). Revue Arachnologique (2) 11: 9-20. -- Show included taxa

Kielhorn, K.-H. & Blick, T. (2024). Erstnachweis der Ungarischen Zwergkräuselspinne Altella hungarica (Araneae: Dictynidae) in Deutschland. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 68: 6-9. doi: 10.30963/aramit6803 -- Show included taxa

Loksa, I. (1981b). The spider fauna of the Hortobágy National Park (Araneae). In: Mahunka, S. (ed.) The fauna of the Hortobágy National Park, Volume 1. Akademiai Kiadó Budapest, pp. 321-339. -- Show included taxa

Ponomarev, A. V., Prokopenko, E. V. & Shmatko, V. Y. (2017). New and interesting records of spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) from the southeastern part of the Russian Plain. Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society in St. Petersburg 88(1): 103-117. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2024-12-12	New taxonomic reference entry	Iorio et al., 2024
2024-12-12	Species distribution update	Iorio et al., 2024	Old value
2024-11-04	New taxonomic reference entry	Kielhorn & Blick, 2024
2024-11-04	Species distribution update	Kielhorn & Blick, 2024	Old value
2021-12-10	Species distribution update	Ponomarev et al., 2021	Old value
2017-11-15	New taxonomic reference entry	Ponomarev, Prokopenko & Shmatko, 2017
2017-11-15	Species distribution update	Ponomarev, Prokopenko & Shmatko, 2017	Old value
2017-11-15	First description of female	Ponomarev, Prokopenko & Shmatko, 2017	Old value