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Genus: Neohahnia Mello-Leitão, 1917 | Family: Hahniidae Bertkau, 1878

Neohahnia ernsti (Simon, 1898)

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Described:

Distribution: Puerto Rico, Cuba, St. Vincent, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum of Invertebrates, Pontifícia Universidad Católica, Quito (QCAZ), Ecuador m of Neohahnia chalupas - (Dupérré & Tapia, 2024a)
Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 1m 1f (13284) - (Lo-Man-Hung, Candiani & Bonaldo, 2025)

Taxonomic References

Hahnia ernsti Simon, 1898i: 888 (Dmf) Original description

Hahnia ernesti Petrunkevitch, 1929b: 78, f. 67-68 (lapsus; misidentified per Lehtinen, 1967: 251)

Neohahnia ernesti Lehtinen, 1967: 251, f. 366, 370 (lapsus, mf, T from Hahnia)

Neohahnia chalupas Dupérré & Tapia, 2024a: 86, f. 23A-D (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059694]

Neohahnia ernsti Lo-Man-Hung, Candiani & Bonaldo, 2025: 2, f. 1-38 (mf, S of Neohahnia chalupas)

References

Dupérré, N. & Tapia, E. (2024a). First record of the family Hahniidae in Ecuador with description of thirteen new species and three new genera (Araneae: Hahniidae). Taxonomy 4(1): 53-111. doi: 10.3390/taxonomy4010005 -- 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

Lo-Man-Hung, N. F., Candiani, D. F. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2025). On the comb-tailed Neohahnia ernsti (Simon, 1898) (Araneae: Hahniidae): redescription and new distribution records. Boletín de la Sociedad Zoológica del Uruguay 34(1, e34.1.6): 1-12. doi: 10.26462/34.1.6 -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1929b). The spiders of Porto Rico. Part one. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 30: 1-158. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1898i). On the spiders of the island of St Vincent. III. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 65(4, 1897): 860-890. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1898.tb01390.x [[published in April 1898, after Duncan, 1937]] -- Show included taxa

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-03-13	Species distribution update	Lo-Man-Hung, Candiani & Bonaldo, 2025	Old value
2025-03-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Lo-Man-Hung, Candiani & Bonaldo, 2025
2025-03-13	Species synonymy	Lo-Man-Hung, Candiani & Bonaldo, 2025		Neohahnia chalupas synonymized with Neohahnia ernsti
2016-11-14	Species updated		Old value	Error corrected