Taxon details


Dysdera crocata C. L. Koch, 1838

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-12-28
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:004397]
  • Distribution: Azores, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Iraq, Central Asia. Introduced to North America, Chile, Brazil, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); f (9900671-104) of Dysdera cretica
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); f (31618-104) of Dysdera palmensis
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); f (9900628-104) of Dysdera sternalis
  • Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); 1m 1f (37198, 39785) of Dysdera inaequuscapillata
  • Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; 1m 1f (164) of Dysdera menozzii (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
Taxonomic references
Dysdera crocota C. L. Koch, 1838: 81, f. 392-394 (Dmf; N.B.: also spelled D. crocata in index, p. 156, the latter accepted as correct by C. L. Koch, 1850: 76).
Dysdera interrita Hentz, 1842: 224 (Dmf).
Dysdera gracilis Nicolet, 1849: 340, pl. 2, f. 5 (Dj).
Dysdera crocata Doblika, 1853: 119.
Dysdera rubicunda Blackwall, 1864a: 371, pl. 28, f. 371 (m, misidentified).
Dysdera wollastoni Blackwall, 1864c: 179 (Dmf).
Dysdera caerulescens C. Koch, 1874: 203 (Dmf).
Dysdera magna Keyserling, 1877c: 230 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:004488].
Dysdera maurusia Dahl, 1883: 53 (misidentified per Rezác, Král & Pekár, 2008: 436).
Dysdera interrita Emerton, 1890: 200, pl. 8, f. 2 (mf).
Dysdera crocata Becker, 1896: 316, pl. 17, f. 21 (mf).
Dysdera crocota Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1897: 268, pl. 10, f. 41 (mf).
Dysdera australiensis Rainbow, 1900a: 485, pl. 23, f. 1 (Df).
Dysdera interrita Emerton, 1902: 22, f. 70-72 (f).
Dysdera crocota Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 118, pl. 16, f. 445 (m).
Dysdera interrita Comstock, 1910: 167, f. 7 (m).
Dysdera crocata Simon, 1911b: 320, f. 9K (m).
Dysdera crocata Simon, 1914: 95, 111, f. 158 (mf).
Dysdera sternalis Roewer, 1928b: 94 (Df).
Dysdera cretica Roewer, 1928b: 95, pl. 1, f. 1 (Df).
Dysdera crocata Berland, 1932b: 273, f. 406 (m).
Dysdera menozzii Caporiacco, 1937: 58, f. 1 (Dmf).
Dysdera interrita Comstock, 1940: 109, f. 99 (m).
Dysdera crocata Kaston, 1948: 62, f. 7-10 (m).
Dysdera crocata Locket & Millidge, 1951: 84, f. 41A, 42B-C, E (m).
Dysdera crocota Wiehle, 1953: 19, f. 44-48 (mf).
Dysdera crocota Charitonov, 1956: 24, f. 8 (m).
Dysdera crocota Grasshoff, 1959: 217, f. 10 (f).
Dysdera crocata Brændegaard, 1966: 71, f. 59-61 (m).
Dysdera crocata Cooke, 1966a: 36, f. 2, 4-6 (m).
Dysdera crocata Hickman, 1967: 39, f. 59-62 (m, S).
Dysdera crocata Loksa, 1969: 78, f. 54A-C (mf).
Dysdera crocata Tystshenko, 1971: 71, f. 100-101 (m).
Dysdera crocata Cooke, 1972b: 90, f. 1 (m).
Dysdera crocata Dresco, 1973b: 247, f. 4 (m).
Dysdera crocota Paik, 1978e: 206, f. 86.1-3 (m).
Dysdera palmensis Schmidt, 1982: 395, f. 3 (Df).
Dysdera crocata Roberts, 1985: 60, f. 19b, d, f, h (mf).
Dysdera crocata Forster & Platnick, 1985: 214, f. 831, 841, 860, 864 (f).
Dysdera crocata Yoshikura, 1987: 153, f. 20.20A-B (m).
Dysdera crocota Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman, 1988: 157, f. 23-27 (mf, S).
Dysdera crocota Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 44, f. 94 (mf).
Dysdera crocota Wunderlich, 1992a: 292, f. 28-31 (mf).
Dysdera inaequuscapillata Wunderlich, 1992a: 295, f. 42-46 (Dmf).
Dysdera crocata Dunin, 1992d: 62, f. 1 (mf).
Dysdera crocota Roberts, 1995: 94, f. (m).
Dysdera crocota Wunderlich, 1995b: 407, f. 6-9 (mf).
Dysdera crocata Mcheidze, 1997: 74, f. 61-62 (mf).
Dysdera crocota Arnedo, Oromí & Ribera, 1997: 252 (S).
Dysdera crocota Roberts, 1998: 97, f. (m).
Dysdera crocota Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 68, f. 27F-I (mf).
Dysdera crocota Arnedo & Ribera, 1999: 623 (S).
Dysdera crocota Arnedo, Oromí & Ribera, 2000: 281, f. 35, 37 (f, S).
Dysdera crocata Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 71, f. 596-599 (mf).
Dysdera crocata Trotta, 2005: 149, f. 32 (m).
Dysdera crocata Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006: 120, f. 37a-f (m).
Dysdera crocata Řezáč, Král & Pekár, 2008: 434, f. 1-4 (mf, S).
Dysdera crocata Kovblyuk, Prokopenko & Nadolny, 2008: 288, f. 1-10 (mf).
Dysdera crocata Harvey, 2009: 17, unnumbered f. (m).
Dysdera crocata Paquin, Vink & Dupérré, 2010: 31, f. 9.1-4 (mf).
Dysdera crocata Le Peru, 2011: 235, f. 274 (mf).
Dysdera crocata Kim, Ye & Kim, 2014a: 83, f. 1-8 (f).
Dysdera crocata Zhang & Wang, 2017: 264, 5 f. (f).
Dysdera crocata Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020o: 4, p. 3: 3 f., p. 4: 5 f. (f, m habitus).
Dysdera crocata Cassar & Řezáč, 2021: 82, f. 2a, 3a, 4a (mf).
Dysdera crocata de Luna, García-Barrios & Torres-Arredondo, 2022: 330, f. 1A-D (mf).
Dysdera crocata Szymański, Szymański & Szymański, 2023: 161, f. 7-10, 12 (mf).
Dysdera crocata Schult et al., 2023: 372, f. 3a-d (mf).
Dysdera crocata Abdel-Ghani, Hassan & Sallam, 2023: 32, f. 1 (f).
References

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Dresco, E. (1973b). Araignées de Bretagne. Le genre Dysdera (fam. Dysderidae). Bulletin de la Société Scientifique de Bretagne 47: 245-256. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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2023-12-28 New taxonomic reference entry Abdel-Ghani, Hassan & Sallam, 2023 n/a
2023-10-14 New taxonomic reference entry Schult et al., 2023 n/a
2023-05-17 New taxonomic reference entry Szymański, Szymański & Szymański, 2023 n/a
2022-12-15 Species distribution update n/a (Old value)
2022-06-27 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020o n/a
2022-06-07 New taxonomic reference entry de Luna, García-Barrios & Torres-Arredondo, 2022 n/a
2021-10-13 New taxonomic reference entry Cassar & Řezáč, 2021 n/a
2020-05-11 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon n/a (Old value)
2019-06-10 New taxonomic reference entry Comstock, 1910 n/a
2019-03-22 New taxonomic reference entry Zhang & Wang, 2017 n/a
2017-10-06 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Dysdera balearica Thorell, 1873, 1873
2015-03-30 New taxonomic reference entry Kim, Ye & Kim, 2014a n/a