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

Walckenaeria asymmetrica Song & Li, 2011

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043955

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Described:

Distribution: China

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Holotype: Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZCAS), Beijing, China m - (Song & Li, 2011)
Paratype: Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZCAS), Beijing, China 1f - (Song & Li, 2011)
Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 1m 1f (ARTO 26982-26983) - (Song & Li, 2011)

Taxonomic References

Walckenaeria asymmetrica Song & Li, 2011: 176, f. 1A-G, 2A-G (Dmf) Original description

Walckenaeria asymmetrica Irfan, Wang & Zhang, 2023b: 66, f. 52A-D, 53A-D, 54A-C (mf)

Walckenaeria asymmetrica Irfan et al., 2025a: 204, f. 268A-D, 269A-C, 270A-D (mf)

References

Irfan, M., Wang, L. Y. & Zhang, Z. S. (2023b). Survey of Linyphiidae spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Wulipo National Nature Reserve, Chongqing, China. European Journal of Taxonomy 871: 1-85. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2023.871.2129 -- Show included taxa

Irfan, M., Zhou, G. C., Peng, X. J. & Zhang, Z. S. (2025a). Survey of Linyphiidae spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from some oriental regions of China. Megataxa 15(1): 1-248. doi: 10.11646/megataxa.15.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Song, Y. J. & Li, S. Q. (2011). Notes on Walckenaeria species (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from China. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 118(1): 175-196. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.117803 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-01-18	New taxonomic reference entry	Irfan et al., 2025a
2023-06-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Irfan, Wang & Zhang, 2023b