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Genus: Langona Simon, 1901 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Langona minima Caporiacco, 1949

SPECIES | NOMEN DUBIUM

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034195

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Described:

Distribution: Kenya

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona (MCSNV), Italy 1f (Di Caporiacco 130; lost per Sherwood, Blick & Ballarin, 2025: 47) - (Ballarin, Salmaso & Latella, 2020)

Taxonomic References

Langona minima Caporiacco, 1949a: 473, f. 88 (Df) Original description

Langona minima Sherwood, Blick & Ballarin, 2025: 47 (type lost, unidentifiable, nomen dubium)

References

Caporiacco, L. di (1949a). Aracnidi della colonia del Kenya raccolti da Toschi e Meneghetti negli anni 1944-1946. Commentationes Pontificia Academia Scientiarum 13: 309-492. -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Blick, T. & Ballarin, F. (2025). Studies on spider nomenclature IV: additional dubious and unavailable nomina, status of genera with invalid type species, further synonymies, and emendations (Arachnida: Araneae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 47: 43-54. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

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
2026-01-12	Taxon is nomen dubium	Sherwood, Blick & Ballarin, 2025		Taxon declared a nomen dubium