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Genus: Hahnia C. L. Koch, 1841 | Family: Hahniidae Bertkau, 1878

Hahnia laticeps Simon, 1898

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:021927

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa, St. Helena

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Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f - (Bosmans, 1981)

Taxonomic References

Hahnia laticeps Simon, 1898f: 11 (Df) Original description

Hahnia laticeps Bosmans, 1981: 208, f. 4, 10 (f, removed from S of Muizenbergia tabulicola, rejecting Lehtinen, 1967: 250)

Hahnia laticeps Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022j: 8, 4 f. (f)

Hahnia laticeps Sherwood et al., 2024e: 1235, f. 16A-D, 17A-D, 18A-B (Dm, f)

References

Bosmans, R. (1981). Études sur les Hahniidae (Araneae) africains II. Les espèces du genre Hahnia de la collection Simon. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (4) 3(A1): 203-211. -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2022j). The Hahniidae of South Africa. Version 2. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 14 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6324696 -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Henrard, A., Jocqué, R., Fowler, L., Marusik, Y. M., Maddison, W., Harvey, M. S., Hormiga, G., Rheims, C. A., Piacentini, L. N., Peters, M., Stevens, N., Joshua, D., Scipio-O’Dean, C. J., Ellick, G., Wilkins, V., Ashmole, M. & Ashmole, P. (2024e). Annotated checklist of the spiders of Saint Helena, with new records, descriptions of unknown sexes, new and restored genera, and two new species (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Arachnology 19(9): 1218-1291. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.19.9.1218 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1898f). Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux des familles des Agelenidae, Pisauridae, Lycosidae et Oxyopidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 42: 5-34. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2024-11-04	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood et al., 2024e
2024-11-04	Species distribution update	Sherwood et al., 2024e	Old value
2024-11-04	First description of male	Sherwood et al., 2024e	Old value
2022-06-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022j