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Genus: Tibellus Simon, 1875 | Family: Philodromidae Thorell, 1869

Tibellus minor Lessert, 1919

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030103

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Described:

Distribution: Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Somalia, Gabon, DR Congo, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Mauritius

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Holotype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland m (ARTO-0027840) - (Van den Berg & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1994)
Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 1f (ARTO-0027840) - (Van den Berg & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1994)

Taxonomic References

Tibellus vossioni minor Lessert, 1919: 161, pl. 2, f. 11, f. 25-26 (Dmf) Original description

Tibellus minor Van den Berg & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1994: 101, f. 2i, 3e, 9a-f (mf, elevated from subspecies)

Tibellus minor Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022g: 45, p. 34: 1 f., p. 45: 4 f., p. 46: 2 f. (mf)

Tibellus minor Sherwood et al., 2026b: 616, f. 6I-L (f)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2022g). The Philodromidae of South Africa. Version 2. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 53 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6634009 -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1919). Araignées du Kilimandjaro et du Mérou (suite). 3. Thomisidae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 27(5): 99-234, pl. 2. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.36325 -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Cole, N. C., Falconer, S., Ferguson, A., Mootoocurpen, R., Norris, K., Ruhomaun, K., Tatayah, V., Taylor, C. H., Orozco-ter Wengel, P., Fisher, C. & Tercel, M. P. T. G. (2026b). Contributions to the knowledge of Mauritian araneofauna: new records (Araneae: Araneomorphae) and description of a remarkable new species of intertidal trapdoor spider (Araneae: Barychelidae). Arachnology 20(4): 608-622. -- Show included taxa

Van den Berg, A. & Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (1994). A revision of the Afrotropical species of the genus Tibellus Simon (Araneae: Philodromidae). Koedoe 37(1): 67-114. -- Show included taxa

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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
2026-03-12	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood et al., 2026b
2026-03-12	Species distribution update	Sherwood et al., 2026b	Old value
2022-06-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022g