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Genus: Ciniflella Mello-Leitão, 1921 | Family: Zoropsidae Bertkau, 1882

Ciniflella lutea Mello-Leitão, 1921

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022709

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil

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Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil f (939, survived the fire 2018) of Ciniflella lutea = Altellopsis luteus (specimens are identical) - (Brescovit et al., 2025a)

Taxonomic References

Ciniflella lutea Mello-Leitão, 1921c: 179 (Df) Original description

Altellopsis luteus Mello-Leitão, 1924a: 275 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057939]

Paraltellopsis luteus Mello-Leitão, 1925a: 455 (generic replacement name)

Ciniflella lutea Roewer, 1955c: 1304 (S of Paraltellopsis luteus)

Ciniflella lutea Lehtinen, 1967: 223 (justification of Roewer's S is not clear)

Ciniflella lutea Brescovit et al., 2025a: 355, f. 2A-B, D-E, 26C-D (f)

References

Brescovit, A. D., Grismado, C. J., Almeida-Silva, L. M. & Ramírez, M. J. (2025a). On the Neotropical spider genus Ciniflella Mello-Leitão, 1921 (Araneae: Zoropsidae, Tengellinae). Zootaxa 5563(1): 345-381. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5563.1.21 -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468. [[second pdf: index and outline by V. D. Roth (unpubl.)]] -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1921c). Um genero e quatro especies novas de aranhas do Brasil. Revista de Sciencias 5: 179-180. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1924a). Algumas aranhas novas du Brasil. Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 1(4): 275-281. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1925a). Pequenas notas arachnologicas. Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 1: 455-463. -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-01-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Brescovit et al., 2025a