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Genus: Archaeodictyna Caporiacco, 1928 | Family: Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871

Archaeodictyna ulova Griswold & Meikle-Griswold, 1987

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022080

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa

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Holotype: Kwazulu-Natal Museum (NMSA), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa m (3391) - (Griswold & Meikle-Griswold, 1987)
Paratype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 1m 1f (1635102) - (Griswold & Meikle-Griswold, 1987)
Paratype: National Museum of Zimbabwe (NMZ), Bulawayo, Zimbabwe 1m 1f - (Griswold & Meikle-Griswold, 1987)
Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium 1m 1f - (Griswold & Meikle-Griswold, 1987)
Paratype: National Museum of Natural History = United States National Museum (USNM), Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA 1m 1f - (Griswold & Meikle-Griswold, 1987)
Paratype: California Academy of Sciences (CAS), San Francisco, USA 1m 1f - (Griswold & Meikle-Griswold, 1987)
Paratype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA 1m 1f - (Griswold & Meikle-Griswold, 1987)
Paratype: Kwazulu-Natal Museum (NMSA), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 11m 5f - (Griswold & Meikle-Griswold, 1987)
Paratype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa 1m 1f (87/830, 831) - (Griswold & Meikle-Griswold, 1987)

Taxonomic References

Archaeodictyna ulova Griswold & Meikle-Griswold, 1987: 5, f. 5-13 (Dmf) Original description

Archaeodictyna ulova Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020n: 6, 3 f. (mf)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2020n). The Dictynidae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 14 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6159874 -- Show included taxa

Griswold, C. E. & Meikle-Griswold, T. (1987). Archaeodictyna ulova, new species (Araneae: Dictynidae), a remarkable kleptoparasite of group-living eresid spiders (Stegodyphus spp., Araneae: Eresidae). American Museum Novitates 2897: 1-11. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2022-06-27	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020n