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

Afrophantes tropicalis (Tullgren, 1910)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011326

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Described:

Distribution: Tanzania

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Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden m - (Bosmans, 1978)
Paralectotype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden 2m 2f - (Bosmans, 1978)
Paralectotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) (10405) -

Taxonomic References

Lepthyphantes tropicalis Tullgren, 1910: 144, pl. 3, f. 63 (Dmf) Original description

Lepthyphantes tropicalis Bosmans, 1978: 268, f. 49-59, 74 (mf)

Afrophantes tropicalis Tanasevitch, 2025d: 364, f. 3B, E (mf, T from Lepthyphantes)

References

Bosmans, R. (1978). Description of four new Lepthyphantes species from Africa, with a redescription of L. biseriatus Simon & Fage and L. tropicalis Tullgren. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4(4): 258-274. -- 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

Tullgren, A. (1910). Araneae. In: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. Sjöstedts Kilimandjaro-Meru Expedition 20(6): 85-172, pl. 1-4. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.6622 -- 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