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Genus: Aname L. Koch, 1873 | Family: Anamidae Simon, 1889

Aname distincta (Rainbow, 1914)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001060

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Described:

Distribution: Australia (Queensland)

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Syntype: Australian Museum, Sydney (AMS), Australia 3f (KS 8188, 131254-131255) - (Wilson et al., 2025a)
Holotype: Australian Museum, Sydney (AMS), Australia f - (Raven, 1985a)

Taxonomic References

Ixamatus distinctus Rainbow, 1914a: 237, f. 48-49 (Df) Original description

Aname distincta Raven, 1980b: 45 (T from Ixamatus)

Aname distincta Raven, 1981c: 338 (S of Aname villosa [revalidated by Wilson et al., 2025: 122] and Dolichosternum attenuatum [revalidated by Wilson et al., 2025: 24, sub Aname])

Aname distincta Wilson et al., 2025a: 103, f. 66A-L (f)

References

Rainbow, W. J. (1914a). Studies in the Australian Araneidae. No. 6. The Terretelariae. Records of the Australian Museum 10: 187-270. -- Show included taxa

Raven, R. J. (1980b). The Australian mygalomorph spider genus Ixamatus Simon (Dipluridae: Diplurinae) and its affinities. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 5: 43-49. -- Show included taxa

Raven, R. J. (1981c). A review of the Australian genera of the mygalomorph spider subfamily Diplurinae (Dipluridae: Chelicerata). Australian Journal of Zoology 29(3): 321-363. doi: 10.1071/ZO9810321 -- Show included taxa

Wilson, J. D., Harvey, M. S., Simmons, L. W. & Rix, M. G. (2025a). An integrative systematic revision of the wishbone spiders (Araneae: Anamidae: Aname L. Koch, 1873) of subtropical and tropical eastern Australia, with the description of 55 new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 985: 1-298. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2025.985.2845 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-04-03	New taxonomic reference entry	Wilson et al., 2025a
2025-04-03	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Aname villosa (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918)
2025-04-03	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Aname attenuata (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918)
2025-04-03	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Aname attenuata (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918)
2018-08-10	Species updated		Old value	Error corrected