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Genus: Lachesana Strand, 1932 | Family: Zodariidae Thorell, 1881

Lachesana rufiventris (Simon, 1873)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025793

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Described:

Distribution: Greece, Syria, Israel

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m (could not be located) - (Levy, 1990b)

Taxonomic References

Lachese rufiventris Simon, 1873a: 68 (Dm) Original description

Laches scutiventris Simon, 1893a: 427, f. 396-398 (m, lapsus)

Lachesana rufiventris Levy, 1990b: 335, f. 7, 15-19 (m, Df)

Lachesana rufiventris Jocqué, 1991a: 36, f. 33

Lachesana rufiventris Bosmans & Gavalas, 2023: 33, f. 18D, 19G-H, 20J-L (m)

Lachesana rufiventris Finkel et al., 2024: 25, f. 22C-F, 23B, 24E-H, 25E-H (m)

References

Bosmans, R. & Gavalas, I. (2023). The spiders (Araneae) of the tiny Greek island Iraklia (Kiklades), with the descriptions of 5 new Harpactea species (Araneae: Dysderidae), 3 species new to Europe and 8 new to Greece. Parnassiana Archives 11(Supplementum 1): 1-91. -- Show included taxa

Finkel, M., Ben-Asher, A., Shmula, G., Armiach Steinpress, I., Ganem, Z., Hammouri, R., Garcia, E., Szűts, T. & Gavish-Regev, E. (2024). Arachnid assemblage composition diverge between south- and north-facing slopes in a Levantine microgeographic site. Diversity 16(540): 1-40. doi: 10.3390/d16090540 -- 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

Levy, G. (1990b). Spiders of the genus Lachesana and a new storenoid genus from Israel (Araneae: Zodariidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 98(4): 327-362. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1990.tb01205.x -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1873a). Aranéides nouveaux ou peu connus du midi de l'Europe. (2e mémoire). Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège (2) 5(8): 1-174, pl. 1-3. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1893a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 257-488. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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
2024-09-08	New taxonomic reference entry	Finkel et al., 2024
2024-09-07	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Lachesana salam Hammouri, Ganem & Gavish-Regev, 2024
2023-11-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Bosmans & Gavalas, 2023
2023-11-22	Species distribution update	Bosmans & Gavalas, 2023	Old value