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Genus: Rhion O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 | Family: Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871

Rhion pallidum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871

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Described:

Distribution: Sri Lanka

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Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m (bottle 434, voucher AR378) - (Lehtinen, 1967)

Taxonomic References

Rhion pallidum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871b: 741, pl. 44, f. 8 (Dm) Original description

Rhium pallidum Bonnet, 1958: 3861 (invalid emendation)

Rhion pallidum Lehtinen, 1967: 452, f. 313 (m)

References

Bonnet, P. (1958). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) (4me partie: N-S). Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 3027-4230. -- 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

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1871b). On some new genera and species of Araneida. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 38(3, 1870): 728-747, pl. 44. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1870.tb00467.x [[published in April 1871, after Duncan, 1937]] -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2016-11-01	Species updated		Old value	Error corrected