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Genus: Bathyphantes Menge, 1866 | Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

Bathyphantes gracilipes van Helsdingen, 1977

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009568

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Described:

Distribution: St. Helena

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Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium f (Ara.133329) - (Sherwood et al., 2024e)

Taxonomic References

Bathyphantes gracilipes van Helsdingen, 1977: 179, f. 75b-d (Df) Original description

Bathyphantes gracilipes Sherwood et al., 2024e: 1237, f. 19A-C (f)

References

Helsdingen, P. J. van (1977). Fam. Linyphiidae. In: La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène IV. Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques (Zool.-Ser. 8°) 220: 168-183. -- 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

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-11-04	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood et al., 2024e