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Genus: Neriene Blackwall, 1833 | Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

Neriene kibonotensis (Tullgren, 1910)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011993

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Distribution: Ethiopia, Gabon, DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Angola

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Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) Linyphia kibonotensis Tullgren, 1910, (10408) -
Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy 10 (mm jj) (242) of Linyphia bonneti - (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)

Taxonomic References

Linyphia kibonotensis Tullgren, 1910: 146, pl. 3, f. 66 (Dmf) Original description

Linyphia bonneti Caporiacco, 1949a: 354, f. 21a-c (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056207]

Linyphia kibonotensis Locket, 1968: 125, f. 47A (m)

Neriene kibonotensis van Helsdingen, 1969: 156, f. 205-213 (mf, T from Linyphia, S of Linyphia bonneti)

Neriene kibonotensis Tanasevitch, 2026c: 246, f. 1A-C (m)

References

Caporiacco, L. di (1949a). Aracnidi della colonia del Kenya raccolti da Toschi e Meneghetti negli anni 1944-1946. Commentationes Pontificia Academia Scientiarum 13: 309-492. -- Show included taxa

Helsdingen, P. J. van (1969). A reclassification of the species of Linyphia Latreille based on the functioning of the genitalia (Araneida, Linyphiidae), I. Zoologische Verhandelingen 105: 3-302, pl. 1-2. -- 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

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2026c). Survey of the Ethiopian linyphiid spider fauna. III. Subfamilies Linyphiinae and Mynogleninae (Arachnida: Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 35(2): 245-255. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.35.2.10 -- 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

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-06-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Tanasevitch, 2026c
2026-06-26	Species distribution update	Tanasevitch, 2026c	Old value