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Genus: Ketambea Millidge & Russell-Smith, 1992 | Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

Ketambea allegrii (Caporiacco, 1935)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011078

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Described:

Distribution: India

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Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano (MCSNM), Milan, Italy m (181a) - (Tanasevitch, 2025b)
Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy 1m (239) - (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)

Taxonomic References

Lepthyphantes allegrii Caporiacco, 1935b: 164, pl. 3, f. 7 (Dm) Original description

Ketambea allegrii Tanasevitch, 2025b: 108, f. 3A-C (m, T from Lepthyphantes)

References

Caporiacco, L. di (1935b). Aracnidi dell'Himalaia e del Karakoram, raccolti dalla Missione italiana al Karakoram (1929-VII). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 13: 161-263, pl. 1-7. -- Show included taxa

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2025b). Revision of the linyphiid spider collection of di Caporiacco from Karakoram (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 34(1): 104-120. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.34.1.09 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-03-27	New taxonomic reference entry	Tanasevitch, 2025b
2025-03-27	Species transferred to new genus	Tanasevitch, 2025b		Species transferred from Lepthyphantes to Ketambea