Blandinia is a monotypic genus of spiders in the family Pisauridae. It was first described in 2016 by Tonini et al. as a replacement name for Ransonia.[2] As of 2017[update], it contains only one species, Blandinia mahasoana, from Madagascar.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Pisauridae |
| Genus: | Blandinia Tonini, Silva, Filho & Freitas, 2016 |
| Species: | B. mahasoana
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| Binomial name | |
| Blandinia mahasoana (Blandin, 1979)[1]
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References
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Blandinia Tonini, Silva, Filho & Freitas, 2016". World Spider Catalog Version 24. Natural History Museum Bern. 2023. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
- ^ Tonini, L.; Silva, J. P. da; Filho, A. S.; Freitas, J. (2016). "Replacement names for two preoccupied generic names in Arthropoda". Zootaxa. 4097 (1): 125–126. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4097.1.7. PMID 27394529.