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Genus: Rhitymna Simon, 1897 | Family: Sparassidae Bertkau, 1872

Rhitymna flava Schmidt & Krause, 1994

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029485

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Distribution: Comoros

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Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (158471) - (Schmidt & Krause, 1994d)

Taxonomic References

Rhitymna flava Schmidt & Krause, 1994d: 240, f. 5 (Dm) Original description

Rhitymna flava Jäger, 2003: 101 (misplaced in Rhitymna)

References

Jäger, P. (2003). Rhitymna Simon 1897: an Asian, not an African spider genus. Generic limits and descriptions of new species (Arachnida, Araneae, Sparassidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 82: 99-125. -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. & Krause, R. H. (1994d). Spinnen von den Comoren II: Oecobiidae, Ctenidae, Pisauridae, Selenopidae, Heteropodidae, Oxyopidae und Mimetidae (Araneida). Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 121: 233-247. -- Show included taxa

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