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Genus: Ariamnes Thorell, 1869 | Family: Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

Ariamnes russulus Simon, 1903

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007139

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Described:

Distribution: Equatorial Guinea

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Type Repository Provide information

It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -

Taxonomic References

Ariamnes russulus Simon, 1903e: 71 (Df) Original description

Ariamnes russulus Agnarsson, 2004: 478 (T from Argyrodes, see note at the genus)

Ariamnes russulus Vanuytven, Jocqué & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2025: 146 (incertae sedis, probably belongs to Rhomphaea)

References

Agnarsson, I. (2004). Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 141(4): 447-626. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00120.x -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1903e). Arachnides de la Guinée espagnole. Memorias de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 1(3): 65-124. -- Show included taxa

Vanuytven, H., Jocqué, R. & Deeleman-Reinhold, C. (2025). Spiders resembling worms: notes on Ariamnes Thorell, 1869 (Araneae: Theridiidae) with the description of a new species from Papua New Guinea and the female of A. petilus Gao & Li, 2014. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 39(2, 2024): 132-147. [[publ. end of Jan. 2025]] -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-01-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Vanuytven, Jocqué & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2025