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Genus: Phylloneta Archer, 1950 | Family: Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833

Phylloneta sisyphia torandae (Strand, 1917)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008692

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Described:

Distribution: Pakistan, India

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Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy 2j (358, 359) of Theridion sisyphium illepida - (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)

Taxonomic References

Theridion lepidum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885b: 32 (Dmf; preoccupied by Walckenaer, 1802, see Enoplognatha ovata) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062532]

Theridion torandae Strand, 1917c: 72 (replacement name) Original description

Theridion sisyphium illepida Caporiacco, 1934a: 147 (superfluous replacement name, reduced to subspecies) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062533]

Theridium sisyphium torandae Bonnet, 1959: 4532 (S of Theridion sisyphium illepida)

References

Bonnet, P. (1959). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) (5me partie: T-Z). Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 4231-5058. -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1934a). Aracnidi dell'Himalaia e del Karakoram raccolti dalla Missione Italiana al Karakoram (1929-VII). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 13: 113-160. [[the plates are at the end of Caporiacco, 1935b]] -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1885b). Araneidea. In: Scientific results of the second Yarkand mission; based upon the collections and notes of the late Ferdinand Stoliczka, Ph. D. Government of India, Calcutta, 115 pp., 2 pls. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.119960 -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1917c). Arachnologica varia XIV-XVIII. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 82(A2): 70-76. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2022-06-14	Species distribution update	Simmons & Marusik, 2022	Old value