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Genus: Lathys Simon, 1885 | Family: Lathyidae Cala-Riquelme, Montana, Crews & Esposito, 2025

Lathys sexpustulata (Simon, 1878)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022472

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Described:

Distribution: Spain, France, Morocco

External Resources*: araneae - Spiders of Europe | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -

Taxonomic References

Lethia sexpustulata Simon, 1878e: 98 (Dm) Original description

Lathys sexpustulata Simon, 1914: 44, 47, 61, f. 88, 95 (m, Df)

Scotolathys alticola Denis, 1954b: 135, f. 4-5 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022449]

Lathys alticola Lehtinen, 1967: 243

Lathys sexpustulata Ledoux et al., 2008: 59, f. 22-24, 26 (mf, S of Lathys alticola)

Lathys sexpustulata Déjean, 2015b: 20, f. 1B, 2B, 3B (f)

Lathys sexpustulata Hernández-Corral, Barrientos & García-Teba, 2025: 54, f. 2A-B (f)

References

Déjean, S. (2015b). Lathys nielseni (Schenkel, 1932) (Araneae, Dictynidae), une espèce confirmée pour la faune de France découverte sur la commune de Toulouse. Revue Arachnologique (2) 2: 20-22. -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1954b). Notes d'aranéologie marocaine. III. Quelques araignées du massif de l'Ayachi, avec une étude sur les Textrix du Maroc. Revue Française d'Entomologie 21: 132-144. -- Show included taxa

Hernández-Corral, J., Barrientos, J. A. & García-Teba, J. P. (2025). Nuevos datos sobre las arañas (Arachnida: Araneae) del Parc Natural del Carrascal de la Font Roja (Alicante, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 46: 51-75. [[publ. end of July]] -- Show included taxa

Ledoux, J.-C., Braud, S., Duffey, E. & Chéreau, L. (2008). Lathys sexpustulata Simon 1878 = Lathys alticola (Denis, 1954). Revue Arachnologique 17: 59-60. -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468. [[second pdf: index and outline by V. D. Roth (unpubl.)]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1878e). Description de Lethia sexpustulata. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (5) 8(Bull.): 98. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1914). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 1re partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-308. -- 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
2025-07-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Hernández-Corral, Barrientos & García-Teba, 2025
2025-07-26	Species distribution update	Hernández-Corral, Barrientos & García-Teba, 2025	Old value
2015-10-12	New taxonomic reference entry	Déjean, 2015b