World Spider Catalog

Genus: Diphya Nicolet, 1849 | Family: Tetragnathidae Menge, 1866

Diphya muchik Silva-Dávila & Mendieta-Yañez, 2025

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066387

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Described:

Distribution: Peru

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (MUSM), Lima, Peru m (ENT 0511683) - (Silva-Dávila & Mendieta-Yañez, 2025)
Paratype: Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (MUSM), Lima, Peru 8m 10f 5j (ENT 0511683, 0511703, 0511726, 0511744, 0511958, 0512025, 0512211, 0512726) - (Silva-Dávila & Mendieta-Yañez, 2025)

Taxonomic References

Diphya muchik Silva-Dávila & Mendieta-Yañez, 2025: 2, f. 1A-D, 2A-F, 3A-C, 4A-D, 5A-F (Dmf) Original description

References

Silva-Dávila, D. & Mendieta-Yañez, S. (2025). First record of the spider genus Diphya Nicolet 1849 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) and new species from northern Peru. Revista Peruana de Biología 32(3, e31498): 1-8. doi: 10.15381/rpb.v32i3.31498 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-11-12	New taxonomic reference entry	Silva-Dávila & Mendieta-Yañez, 2025
2025-11-12	New species inserted	Silva-Dávila & Mendieta-Yañez, 2025

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