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Genus: Zorodictyna Strand, 1907 | Family: Udubidae Griswold & Polotow, 2015

Zorodictyna oswaldi (Lenz, 1891)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020354

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Described:

Distribution: Madagascar

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f of Uduba inhonesta - (Henrard, Griswold & Jocqué, 2024)
Holotype: Zoologisches Institut Tübingen, Germany; type material destroyed 1945 f of Zorodictyna intermedia - (Henrard, Griswold & Jocqué, 2024)
Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany 2m 2f (A0002391) - (Henrard, Griswold & Jocqué, 2024)

Taxonomic References

Agroeca o'swaldi Lenz, 1891: 169, pl. 1, f. 6, 8 (Dmf) Original description

Uduba inhonesta Simon, 1906b: 294 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020353]

Zorodictyna intermedia Strand, 1907d: 725 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054635]

Zorodictyna intermedia Strand, 1907o: 3 (Df)

Uliodon oswaldi Strand, 1908a: 118

Zorodictyna inhonesta Lehtinen, 1967: 276, f. 76 (f, T from Uduba, S of Zorodictyna intermedia)

Zorodictyna oswaldi Lehtinen, 1967: 276, f. 72, 78 (mf, T from Uliodon)

Zorodictyna oswaldi Griswold, 1993: 8, f. 19-24, 62-63 (mf)

Zorodictyna oswaldi Henrard, Griswold & Jocqué, 2024: 52 (S of Zorodictyna inhonesta)

References

Griswold, C. E. (1993). Investigations into the phylogeny of the lycosoid spiders and their kin (Arachnida: Araneae: Lycosoidea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 539: 1-39. -- Show included taxa

Henrard, A., Griswold, C. & Jocqué, R. (2024). On new genera and species of crack-leg spiders (Araneae, Udubidae) from Madagascar. European Journal of Taxonomy 966: 1-80. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2024.966.2697 -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468. [[second pdf: index and outline by V. D. Roth (unpubl.)]] -- Show included taxa

Lenz, H. (1891). Spinnen von Madagascar und Nossibé. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten 9: 161-182, pl. 1-2. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1906b). Etude sur les araignées de la section des cribellates. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 50: 284-308. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907d). Diagnosen neuer Spinnen aus Madagaskar und Sansibar. Zoologischer Anzeiger 31: 725-748. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907o). Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna Madagaskars. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne 46(1): 1-96. [[both parts in one pdf, see Strand 1908a]] -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1908a). Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna Madagaskars. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne 46(2): 97-227. [[both parts in one pdf, see Strand 1907o]] -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2024-10-24	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Uduba madagascariensis (Vinson, 1863)
2024-10-24	New taxonomic reference entry	Henrard, Griswold & Jocqué, 2024
2024-10-24	Species synonymy	Henrard, Griswold & Jocqué, 2024	Zorodictyna inhonesta synonymized with Zorodictyna oswaldi