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Genus: Quamtana Huber, 2003 | Family: Pholcidae C. L. Koch, 1850

Quamtana lotzi Huber, 2003

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038446

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa

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Taxonomic References

Quamtana lotzi Huber, 2003d: 490, f. 5, 83-85 (Dmf) Original description

Quamtana sp. ZFMK Ar 24490 aff. lotzi Huber, Szymański & Bennett-West, 2024: 79, f. 1A-D, 2A-C, 3A-F, 4A-G, 5A-B (mf, from Britain and Poland)

References

Huber, B. A. (2003d). Southern African pholcid spiders: revision and cladistic analysis of Quamtana gen. nov. and Spermophora Hentz (Araneae: Pholcidae), with notes on male-female covariation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139(4): 477-527. doi: 10.1046/j.0024-4082.2003.00082.x -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. A., Szymański, H. & Bennett-West, A. (2024). Progress or burden? Formal description of every apparently new species available in collections is neither necessary nor useful. ZooKeys 1214: 77-90. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1214.130592 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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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	Comment
2024-10-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Huber, Szymański & Bennett-West, 2024