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Selenops lobatse

species of arachnid

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ1851826 ↗
Source-derived summary

Selenops lobatse is a species of araneomorphae spider in the family Selenopidae.

Distribution

The species is endemic to North West, South Africa · .

Description

The female holotype measures 9.70 mm.

Etymology

The name of the species was given in reference to the place of its discovery, Lobatse.

Publications

Corronca, 2001 : Three new species of Selenops Latreille, 1819 (Aranei: Selenopidae) from Afrotropical region. Arthropoda Selecta, vol. 10, No. 1, p. 55-58 ([1] Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine).

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“Selenops lobatse” enters the record as species of arachnid. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Selenops, lobatse and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 1819, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Selenops, lobatse and species.
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Why this record matters

“Selenops lobatse” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Selenops, lobatse and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1851826. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2001, 1819 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Selenops lobatse” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.