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Genus: Cicynethus Simon, 1910 | Family: Zodariidae Thorell, 1881

Cicynethus floriumfontis Jocqué, 1991

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025668

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa

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Holotype: National Museum, Bloemfontein (NMBA), South Africa m (1170) - (Jocqué & Henrard, 2018)

Taxonomic References

Cicynethus floriumfontis Jocqué, 1991a: 104, f. 236-241 (Dm) Original description

Cicynethus floriumfontis Jocqué & Henrard, 2018: 15, f. 2A-C, 9A-F, 10A-E, 11A-C (m, Df)

Cicynethus floriumfontis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2024a: 43, f. 1-8 (mf)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Jocqué, R., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2024a). The Zodariidae of South Africa. Part 1 (A-D). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 91 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.14404920 -- Show included taxa

Jocqué, R. (1991a). A generic revision of the spider family Zodariidae (Araneae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 201: 1-160. -- Show included taxa

Jocqué, R. & Henrard, A. (2018). A revision of the genus Cicynethus Simon, 1910 (Araneae, Zodariidae), a tale ofcolour patterns. European Journal of Taxonomy 465: 1-35. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2018.465 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2024-12-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2024a
2018-10-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Jocqué & Henrard, 2018
2018-10-11	First description of female	Jocqué & Henrard, 2018	Old value