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Genus: Peponocranium Simon, 1884 | Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

Peponocranium ambrosii Milano & Isaia, 2025

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065443

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Described:

Distribution: Alps (Switzerland, Austria, Italy)

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali ‘E. Caffi’, Bergamo (MCSNB/MSNB), Italy m - (Milano, Pantini & Isaia, 2025)
Paratype: Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali ‘E. Caffi’, Bergamo (MCSNB/MSNB), Italy 3m 2f - (Milano, Pantini & Isaia, 2025)
Paratype: Marco Isaia Private Collection, Torino, Italy 4m 1f - (Milano, Pantini & Isaia, 2025)
Paratype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland 5m - (Milano, Pantini & Isaia, 2025)
Paratype: Museo cantonale di storia naturale, Lugano (MCSNL), Switzerland 1m 1f - (Milano, Pantini & Isaia, 2025)

Taxonomic References

Peponocranium cf. orbiculatum Hänggi, 1989: 170, f. 2a-b (mf; misidentified per Milano, Pantini & Isaia, 2025: 20)

Peponocranium ambrosii Milano & Isaia in Milano, Pantini & Isaia, 2025: 20, f. 1a-e, 2a-b, 3a-c, 4a-b (Dmf) Original description

References

Hänggi, A. (1989). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Spinnenfauna des Kantons Tessin II-Bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde aus Magerwiesen der Montanstufe. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 62: 167-174. doi: 10.5169/seals-402346 -- Show included taxa

Milano, F., Pantini, P. & Isaia, M. (2025). A new species of Peponocranium (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from the Alps. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 69: 19-26. doi: 10.30963/aramit6906 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2025-06-28	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon		Old value
2025-06-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Milano, Pantini & Isaia, 2025
2025-06-28	New species inserted	Milano, Pantini & Isaia, 2025

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