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Genus: Napometa Benoit, 1977 | Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

Napometa trifididens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)

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Described:

Distribution: St. Helena

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Syntype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK 2m 1f 1j (742) - (Sherwood et al., 2024e)

Taxonomic References

Linyphia trifididens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873e: 220 (Dmf) Original description

Enoplognatha trifididens Simon, 1894a: 578

Napometa trifididens Benoit, 1977k: 187, f. 77a-c (Tmf from Enoplognatha)

Napometa trifididens Hormiga, 1998: 127, f. 14-17 (m)

Napometa trifididens Sherwood et al., 2024e: 1241, f. 23A-H (m)

References

Benoit, P. L. G. (1977k). Fam. Araneidae. In: La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène IV. Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques (Zool.-Ser. 8°) 220: 184-188. -- Show included taxa

Hormiga, G. (1998). The spider genus Napometa (Araneae, Araneoidea, Linyphiidae). Journal of Arachnology 26: 125-132. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1873e). On the spiders of St Helena. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 41(2): 210-227, pl. 24. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1873.tb00504.x -- 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

Simon, E. (1894a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 489-760. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- 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