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Genus: Trachelas L. Koch, 1872 | Family: Trachelidae Simon, 1897

Trachelas scutatus Haddad & Lyle, 2025

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065747

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Described:

Distribution: Ghana, Nigeria

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: California Academy of Sciences (CAS), San Francisco, USA m - (Haddad & Lyle, 2025)
Allotype: California Academy of Sciences (CAS), San Francisco, USA f - (Haddad & Lyle, 2025)
Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium 3m 10f (218262, 218271) - (Haddad & Lyle, 2025)

Taxonomic References

Trachelas scutatus Haddad & Lyle, 2025: 479, f. 7D-E, 17C-G (Dmf) Original description

References

Haddad, C. R. & Lyle, R. (2025). A revision of the genus Trachelas L. Koch, 1872 (Araneae: Trachelidae) in the continental Afrotropical Region. Zootaxa 5673(4): 451-493. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5673.4.1 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-08-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Haddad & Lyle, 2025
2025-08-07	New species inserted	Haddad & Lyle, 2025

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