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Genus: Lokitandroka Pett & Agnarsson, 2025 | Family: Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

Lokitandroka minax (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007097

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Described:

Distribution: Madagascar, Comoros

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Holotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK m (555, tube 50) - (Locket, 1980)

Taxonomic References

Argyrodes minax O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880b: 336, pl. 30, f. 15a, c-e (Dm) Original description

Argyrodes minax Locket, 1980: 119, f. 12-14 (m)

Lokitandroka minax Pett, Ferreira & Agnarsson, 2025: 21 (T from Argyrodes)

References

Locket, G. H. (1980). Some spiders from the Comoro Islands. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 5(3): 117-128. -- Show included taxa

Pett, B. L., Ferreira, E. & Agnarsson, I. (2025). Megadiverse Madagascar: new species and genera of argyrodine spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae, Argyrodinae) from the eastern rainforest reserve Analamazaotra. Insect Systematics and Diversity 9(6, ixaf047): 1-28. doi: 10.1093/isd/ixaf047 -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1880b). On some new and little known spiders of the genus Argyrodes. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 48(2): 320-344, pl. 28-30. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1880.tb06563.x -- 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	Comment
2025-11-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Pett, Ferreira & Agnarsson, 2025
2025-11-21	Species transferred to new genus	Pett, Ferreira & Agnarsson, 2025		Species transferred from Argyrodes to Lokitandroka