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Genus: Afrophantes Tanasevitch, 2025 | Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

Afrophantes chilalo (Tanasevitch, 2025)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064132

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Described:

Distribution: Ethiopia

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia m - (Tanasevitch, 2025a)
Paratype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia 3f - (Tanasevitch, 2025a)
Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 1f - (Tanasevitch, 2025a)

Taxonomic References

Lepthyphantes chilalo Tanasevitch, 2025a: 266, f. 5A-G, 5A-M (Dmf) Original description

Afrophantes chilalo Tanasevitch, 2025d: 364 (T from Lepthyphantes)

References

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2025a). Survey of the Ethiopian linyphiid spider fauna. II. Subfamily Micronetinae Hull, 1920 (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 976: 255-282. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2025.976.2795 -- Show included taxa

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2025d). A new genus for the tropicalis species-group of Lepthyphantes Menge, 1866 sensu lato (Linyphiidae: Micronetinae). Invertebrate Zoology 22(2): 360-366. doi: 10.15298/invertzool.22.2.10 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2025-06-25	New taxonomic reference entry	Tanasevitch, 2025d
2025-06-25	Species transferred to new genus	Tanasevitch, 2025d	Species transferred from Lepthyphantes to Afrophantes
2025-02-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Tanasevitch, 2025a
2025-02-26	New species inserted	Tanasevitch, 2025a