Taxon details

Family: Theridiidae / Genus: Rhomphaea

Rhomphaea affinis Lessert, 1936

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: f
  • Last updated: 2023-02-10
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006968]
  • Distribution: Mozambique, South Africa
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Taxonomic references
Rhomphaea affinis Lessert, 1936: 236, f. 31-32 (Df).
Rhomphaea affinis Agnarsson, 2004: 479 (Tf from Argyrodes per Levi & Levi, 1962).
Rhomphaea affinis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021A: 4, 4 f. (f).
Rhomphaea affinis Dippenaar-Schoeman & van Zyl, 2023a: 14, f. 1-11 (f).
References

Agnarsson, I. (2004). Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 141(4): 447-626. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00120.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. & Zyl, J. van (2023a). First record of the theridiid spider Rhomphaea affinis Lessert, 1936 from South Africa (Arachnida: Theridiidae). SANSA Newsletter 44: 14-16. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7539731 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021A). The Theridiidae of South Africa. Part 2 [R-T]. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 49 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7515998 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1936). Araignées de l'Afrique orientale portugaise, recueillies par MM. P. Lesne et B.-B. Cott. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 43: 207-306. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-02-10 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021A n/a
2023-01-21 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman & van Zyl, 2023a n/a
2023-01-21 Species distribution update Dippenaar-Schoeman & van Zyl, 2023a n/a (Old value)