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Genus: Osmooka Kuntner, Yu & Bond, 2025 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Osmooka aphana Kuntner, Yu, Bedjanič, Gregorič & Bond, 2025

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066684

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Described:

Distribution: Madagascar

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: California Academy of Sciences (CAS), San Francisco, USA m (ENT 9062724) - (Kuntner et al., 2025)
Paratype: National Museum of Natural History = United States National Museum (USNM), Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA 1f - (Kuntner et al., 2025)

Taxonomic References

Osmooka aphana Kuntner, Yu, Bedjanič, Gregorič & Bond in Kuntner et al., 2025: 18, f. 1A-F, 2C-G, 5A-J, 6A-F, 9B, 13A-E, 14A-G, S13A-H (Dmf) Original description

References

Kuntner, M., Yu, K. P., Bedjanič, M., Gregorič, M., Turk, E., Čandek, K., Coddington, J. A., Agnarsson, I., Starrett, J. & Bond, J. E. (2025). Osmooka, a new spider genus from Madagascar: a surprising relative of the Australian fauna (Araneae: Paraplectanoididae). Insect Systematics and Diversity 9(6, ixaf050): 1-26, Suppl. 20 pp. doi: 10.1093/isd/ixaf050 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-01-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Kuntner et al., 2025
2026-01-17	New species inserted	Kuntner et al., 2025

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