Taxon details

Family: Mimetidae / Genus: Anansi

Anansi natalensis (Lawrence, 1938)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-10-07
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005768]
  • Distribution: South Africa
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Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Mimetus natalensis Lawrence, 1938a: 483, f. 17 (Dmf).
Mimetus natalensis Unzicker, 1966: 511, f. 1-2, 8-9 (mf).
Anansi natalensis Benavides, Giribet & Hormiga, 2017: 399 (T from Mimetus).
Anansi natalensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021o: 6, p. 5: 3 f., p. 6: 6 f. (mf).
References

Benavides, L. R., Giribet, G. & Hormiga, G. (2017). Molecular phylogenetic analysis of "pirate spiders" (Araneae, Mimetidae) with the description of a new African genus and the first report of maternal care in the family. Cladistics 33(4): 375-405. doi:10.1111/cla.12174 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021o). The Mimetidae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 16 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6783302 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R. F. (1938a). A collection of spiders from Natal and Zululand. Annals of the Natal Museum 8: 455-524. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Unzicker, J. D. (1966). A review of the African Mimetidae (Arachnida: Araneae) with the description of a new species. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 39(3): 506-513. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2022-10-07 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021o n/a
2017-07-07 New taxonomic reference entry Benavides, Giribet & Hormiga, 2017 n/a
2017-07-07 Species transferred to new genus Benavides, Giribet & Hormiga, 2017 Species transferred from Mimetus to Anansi