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Genus: Falklandia Forster & Platnick, 1985 | Family: Orsolobidae Cooke, 1965

Falklandia rumbolli (Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1974)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005284

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Described:

Distribution: Falkland Is.

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN) “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina m (6656) - (Galiano & Maury, 1979)
Allotype: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN) “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina f (6657) - (Galiano & Maury, 1979)
Paratype: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN) “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1m 1f (664) - (Galiano & Maury, 1979)

Taxonomic References

Orsolobus rumbolli Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1974: 83, f. 47-50 (Dmf) Original description

Falklandia rumbolli Forster & Platnick, 1985: 19, f. 43-50 (Tmf from Orsolobus)

Falklandia rumbolli Lavery & Snazell, 2025: 14, f. 3-4 (f)

References

Forster, R. R. & Platnick, N. I. (1985). A review of the austral spider family Orsolobidae (Arachnida, Araneae), with notes on the superfamily Dysderoidea. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 181: 1-230. -- Show included taxa

Lavery, A. H. & Snazell, R. G. (2025). The spiders of the Falkland Islands 3: Mecysmaucheniidae and Orsolobidae (Araneae). Arachnology 20(1): 12-24. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.12 -- Show included taxa

Schiapelli, R. D. & Gerschman de P., B. S. (1974). Arañas de las islas Malvinas. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Ent.) 4: 79-93, pl. 1-4. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-03-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Lavery & Snazell, 2025