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Genus: Pandava Lehtinen, 1967 | Family: Titanoecidae Lehtinen, 1967

Pandava hunanensis Yin & Bao, 2001

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038786

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Described:

Distribution: Iraq, China

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Holotype: College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University (HNU), Changsha, China f - (Al-Khailani & Al-Khazali, 2026)
Allotype: College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University (HNU), Changsha, China m - (Al-Khailani & Al-Khazali, 2026)
Paratype: College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University (HNU), Changsha, China 2m 11f - (Al-Khailani & Al-Khazali, 2026)

Taxonomic References

Pandava hunanensis Yin & Bao, 2001: 58, f. 1a-h (Dmf) Original description

Pandava hunanensis Almeida-Silva, Griswold & Brescovit, 2010: 37, f. 38-57 (mf)

Pandava hunanensis Yin et al., 2012: 1037, f. 539a-g (mf)

Pandava hunanensis Al-Khailani & Al-Khazali, 2026: 258, f. 5A-B, 6A-D (f)

References

Al-Khailani, M. A. & Al-Khazali, A. M. (2026). First record of Pandava Lehtinen, 1967, in the Middle East, with a new record of Nurscia albomaculata (Lucas, 1846) (Araneae: Titanoecidae) from Iraq. Ecologica Montenegrina 94: 254-263. doi: 10.37828/em.2026.94.18 -- Show included taxa

Almeida-Silva, L. M., Griswold, C. E. & Brescovit, A. D. (2010). Revision of the Asian spider genus Pandava Lehtinen (Araneae: Titanoecidae): description of five new species and first record of Titanoecidae from Africa. Zootaxa 2630: 30-56. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2630.1.2 -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M. & Bao, Y. H. (2001). Two new species of the family Titanoecidae from Hunan Province (Arachnida: Araneae). Journal of Changde Teachers University, Natural Science Edition 13(3): 58-61. -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J., Yan, H. M., Bao, Y. H., Xu, X., Tang, G., Zhou, Q. S. & Liu, P. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press Changsha, 1590 pp. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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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
2026-02-12	New taxonomic reference entry	Al-Khailani & Al-Khazali, 2026
2026-02-12	Species distribution update	Al-Khailani & Al-Khazali, 2026	Old value