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Genus: Larinia Simon, 1874 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Larinia longissima Simon, 1881

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016302

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Described:

Distribution: Central, East, Southern Africa

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f - (Grasshoff, 1970b)
Holotype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden j of Larinia quinquepunctata - (Grasshoff, 1970b)
Holotype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden f of Larinia fasciata - (Grasshoff, 1970b)
Syntype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 4f of Larinia tibelloides - (Grasshoff, 1970b)
Syntype: Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM), Budapest, Hungary 2j (1228/1905, 1236/1906) of Larinia quinquepunctata concolor - (Caporiacco, 1947c)

Taxonomic References

Larinia longissima Simon, 1881e: 3 (Df) Original description

Larinia fasciata Thorell, 1899: 41 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057812]

Larinia quinquepunctata Tullgren, 1910: 162 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057815]

Larinia tibelloides Lessert, 1930: 632, f. 11 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057817]

Larinia tibelloides Lessert, 1933: 113, f. 28-30 (Dm)

Larinia quinquepunctata concolor Caporiacco, 1947c: 163 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057816]

Larinopa longissima Grasshoff, 1970b: 230, f. 12a-b, 14a-f (mf, T from Larinia, S of Larinia fasciata, L. quinquepunctata, L. quinquepunctata concolor and L. tibelloides)

Lipocrea longissima Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022e: 44, p. 43: 3 f., p. 44: 6 f. (f)

Larinia longissima Tanikawa, Into & Petcharad, 2025b: 88 (T from Larinopa, by S of the genus)

References

Caporiacco, L. di (1947c). Arachnida Africae Orientalis, a dominibus Kittenberger, Kovács et Bornemisza lecta, in Museo Nationali Hungarico servata. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 40: 97-257. -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H., Lotz, L. N. & Webb, P. (2022e). The Araneidae of South Africa. Version 2: part 2 (E-Ne). South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 64 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6619195 -- Show included taxa

Grasshoff, M. (1970b). Die Tribus Mangorini. I. Die Gattungen Eustala, Larinia s. str., Larinopa n. gen. (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae-Araneinae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 51(3/4): 209-234. -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1930). Araignées du Congo recueillies au cours de l'expédition organisée par l'American Museum (1909-1915). Quatrième et dernière partie. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 37: 613-672. -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1933). Araignées d'Angola. Résultats de la Mission scientifique suisse en Angola 1928-1929. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 40(1): 85-159. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.117656 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1881e). Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux d'Afrique. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 6(1-2): 1-15. -- Show included taxa

Tanikawa, A., Into, T. & Petcharad, B. (2025b). On the synonymization of Lipocrea and Lariniaria with Larinia (Araneae: Araneidae) using molecular systematics. Acta Arachnologica 74(2): 85-89, Suppl. 1-2. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.74.85 -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1899). Araneae Camerunenses (Africae occidentalis) quas anno 1891 collegerunt Cel. Dr Y. Sjöstedt aliique. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 25(IV, 1): 1-105. -- Show included taxa

Tullgren, A. (1910). Araneae. In: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. Sjöstedts Kilimandjaro-Meru Expedition 20(6): 85-172, pl. 1-4. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.6622 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2026-02-04	Type repository inserted	Grasshoff, 1970b
2026-01-20	Transferred to other genus after syn. gen	Tanikawa, Into & Petcharad, 2025b	Transferred from Lipocrea Thorell, 1878 to Larinia Simon, 1874 (genus synonymy)
2022-06-08	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022e