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Genus: Helsdingenia Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 2003 | Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

Helsdingenia extensa (Locket, 1968)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011160

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Described:

Distribution: St. Helena, Africa, Madagascar, Comoros

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museo Regional do Dundo (MDA), Luanda-Norte, Angola m of Leptyphantes bifurcus - (Locket, 1968)
Paratype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK mm of Leptyphantes bifurcus - (Locket, 1968)
Paratype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 5f - (Locket, 1968)
Holotype: Museo Regional do Dundo (MDA), Luanda-Norte, Angola f - (Locket, 1968)

Taxonomic References

Lepthyphantes extensus Locket, 1968: 96, f. 23A-C, 24A-C (Df) Original description

Lepthyphantes bifurcus Locket, 1968: 88, f. 16A-C (Dm; f f. 16D-E see Lepthyphantes locketi) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065057]

Lepthyphantes extensus van Helsdingen, 1977: 171, f. 72e-g, 73a-f (mf, S of Lepthyphantes bifurcus)

Helsdingenia extensa Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 2003a: 155 (T from Lepthyphantes)

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

Locket, G. H. (1968). Spiders of the family Linyphiidae from Angola. Publicações Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola 71: 61-144. -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. & Tanasevitch, A. V. (2003a). Helsdingenia gen.n., a new micronetid genus from Old-World tropics (Aranei: Linyphiidae: Micronetinae). Arthropoda Selecta 11: 153-158. -- Show included taxa

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