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Genus: Cortestina Knoflach, 2009 | Family: Oonopidae Simon, 1890

Cortestina thaleri Knoflach, 2009

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043093

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Described:

Distribution: Spain, Austria, Italy

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Type Repository Provide information

Paratype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 1m - (Knoflach, Pfaller & Stauder, 2009)
Paratype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA 1m - (Knoflach, Pfaller & Stauder, 2009)
Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 1m (ARTO 25048-25050; only one of them is a paratype) - (Knoflach, Pfaller & Stauder, 2009)
Paratype: Natural History Museum, Bern (NMBE) [= Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern], Switzerland 1m 3f (AR 6777, 42985, in part ex coll. Thaler) - (Knoflach, Pfaller & Stauder, 2009)
Holotype: Natural History Museum, Bern (NMBE) [= Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern], Switzerland m (AR 6779) - (Knoflach, Pfaller & Stauder, 2009)
Paratype: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHMW), Wien/Vienna, Austria 1m - (Knoflach, Pfaller & Stauder, 2009)

Taxonomic References

Cortestina thaleri Knoflach in Knoflach, Pfaller & Stauder, 2009: 748, f. 1-51, 59 (Dmf) Original description

Cortestina thaleri Barrientos et al., 2024c: 43, f. 11A, 11a1, pl. 6B (m)

References

Barrientos, J. A., De Mas, E., Gavín-Centol, M. P., Pertegal, C., Salazar, B., Fenoy, E., Balanzategui, I., Mederos, J., Montserrat, M., Barranco, P. & Moya-Laraño, J. (2024c). Arañas (Arachnida: Araneae) del Parque Natural de Cabo de Gata-Níjar (Almería, España); 2ª aportación. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 45: 27-59. -- Show included taxa

Knoflach, B., Pfaller, K. & Stauder, F. (2009). Cortestina thaleri - a new dwarf six-eyed spider from Austria and Italy (Araneae: Oonopidae: Oonopinae). Contributions to Natural History 12: 743-771. doi: 10.5169/seals-786995 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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
2024-12-27	New taxonomic reference entry	Barrientos et al., 2024c
2024-12-27	Species distribution update	Barrientos et al., 2024c	Old value