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Genus: Heriaeus Simon, 1875 | Family: Thomisidae Sundevall, 1833

Heriaeus buffonopsis Loerbroks, 1983

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030431

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Described:

Distribution: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan

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Paratype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) Heriaeus buffonopsis Loerbroks, 1983, (18261–62) -

Taxonomic References

Heriaeus buffonopsis Loerbroks, 1983: 127, f. 22, 77-80 (Dmf) Original description

Heriaeus buffonopsis Utochkin, 1985: 109, f. 4, 25-26 (m)

Heriaeus buffonopsis Esyunin et al., 2025: 444, f. 11G-H (f)

References

Esyunin, S. L., Efimik, V. E., Nekhaeva, A. A., Kim, L. V., Valuev, V. A., Kabdrakhimov, A. A., Tuneva, T. K. & Akhmedenov, K. M. (2025). New data on the spider (Arachnida: Aranei) fauna of Mangystau Oblast, Kazakhstan. Arthropoda Selecta 34(3): 426-446. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.34.3.15 -- Show included taxa

Loerbroks, A. (1983). Revision der Krabbenspinnen-Gattung Heriaeus Simon (Arachnida: Araneae: Thomisidae). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 26: 85-139. -- Show included taxa

Utochkin, A. S. (1985). Materials of the spider genus Heriaeus (Aranei, Thomisidae) of the USSR. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, Leningrad 139: 105-113. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-09-24	New taxonomic reference entry	Esyunin et al., 2025