''Rhinoblemma'' is a
monotypic genus of
araneomorph spiders in the family
Tetrablemmidae found on
Caroline Island.
It contains the single species, ''Rhinoblemma unicorne'', first described in 1963 by
Carl Friedrich Roewer
Carl Friedrich Roewer (12 October 1881, in Neustrelitz – 17 June 1963) was a German arachnologist. He concentrated on harvestmen, where he described almost a third (2,260) of today's known species, but also almost 700 taxa of spiders and numerou ...
under the name ''Tetrablemma unicornis''. In 1981,
Pekka T. Lehtinen
Pekka T. Lehtinen (born 1934) is a Finnish arachnology, arachnologist and taxonomy (biology), taxonomist. He is known for his works in systematics and for the many expeditions in which he has participated.
Biography
Lehtinen was born on 5 April ...
transferred it to ''Rhinoblemma''.
See also
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List of Tetrablemmidae species
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Tetrablemma
''Tetrablemma'' is a widespread genus of armored spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1873. It only has four eyes; an unusual trait for spiders, found only here and in some species of ''Caponiidae'', though the two are not cl ...
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References
Monotypic Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of Oceania
Taxa named by Pekka T. Lehtinen
Tetrablemmidae
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