World Spider Catalog

Genus: Tolkienus Cala-Riquelme, Crews & Esposito, 2025 | Family: Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871

Tolkienus estoc Cala-Riquelme & Al-Jamal, 2025

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065504

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Described:

Distribution: Equatorial Guinea

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: California Academy of Sciences (CAS), San Francisco, USA m (ENT9118701) - (Montana et al., 2025)
Paratype: California Academy of Sciences (CAS), San Francisco, USA 5m 1f (ENT 9118701, 9118720) - (Montana et al., 2025)

Taxonomic References

Tolkienus estoc Cala-Riquelme & Al-Jamal in Montana et al., 2025: 91, f. 57C, 60A-F, 61A-F, 62A-D (Dmf) Original description

References

Montana, K. O., Cala-Riquelme, F., Crews, S. C., Gorneau, J. A., Al-Jamal, A. M., Alequín, L. D., Spagna, J. C., Ballarin, F. & Esposito, L. A. (2025). Tailor's drawer no more: a reappraisal of the spider family Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 sensu lato. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204(2, zlaf007): 1-97. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf007 [[2nd pdf contains the Suppl. Figs 1-5]] -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-07-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Montana et al., 2025
2025-07-07	New species inserted	Montana et al., 2025

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