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Genus: Afrophantes Tanasevitch, 2025 | Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

Afrophantes maesi (Bosmans, 1986)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011228

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Described:

Distribution: Cameroon

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium (database excerpt, Feb. 2019) (163055) -

Taxonomic References

Lepthyphantes maesi Bosmans, 1986a: 189, f. 8e-h (Df) Original description

Afrophantes maesi Tanasevitch, 2025d: 364 (T from Lepthyphantes)

References

Bosmans, R. (1986a). Scientific report of the Belgian Cameroon Expeditions 1981 and 1983. 13. New species and new records of spiders of the family Linyphiidae (Araneae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 100: 171-204. -- Show included taxa

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2025d). A new genus for the tropicalis species-group of Lepthyphantes Menge, 1866 sensu lato (Linyphiidae: Micronetinae). Invertebrate Zoology 22(2): 360-366. doi: 10.15298/invertzool.22.2.10 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-06-25	New taxonomic reference entry	Tanasevitch, 2025d
2025-06-25	Species transferred to new genus	Tanasevitch, 2025d		Species transferred from Lepthyphantes to Afrophantes