Siwa dufouri (Simon, 1874)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017066

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Described:

Distribution: Spain, France, Italy (Sardinia), Malta, Greece, Algeria


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f - (Simon, 1874a)
  • Holotype: National Natural History Collections, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (HUJ), Israel m (15488) of Neoscona lotan - (Levy, 2007)
Taxonomic References
Larinia dufouri Simon, 1874a: 116, pl. 2, f. 5-6 (Df) Original description
Araneus dufouri Simon, 1929: 692, 762, f. 1070b, 1071b (f, Dm)
Araneus dufouri Grasshoff, 1970b: 218 (T from Larinia)
Siwa dufouri Levy, 1986: 3, f. 10-17 (mf, T from Araneus)
Siwa dufouri Melic, 2000c: 59, f. 1-3 (f)
Neoscona lotan Levy, 2007: 27, f. 70-74 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041050]
Siwa dufouri Wunderlich, 2011: 11, f. 10-13 (mf)
Siwa dufouri Dentici, 2018: 86, f. 4-6 (f)
Siwa dufouri Morano et al., 2021: 84, f. 4A (m)
Siwa dufouri Murphy in Logunov, 2022a: 80, f. 5 (f)
Siwa dufouri Morano, 2023: 102, f. 112-115 (mf)
Siwa dufouri van Helsdingen & IJland, 2024: 6, f. 11-13 (f)
Siwa dufouri Zonstein, 2025b: 289, f. 14-22, 28-32 (mf, S of Neoscona lotan)
References

Dentici, A. (2018). Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna (Arachnida Araneae) of the Maltese Archipelago. Biodiversity Journal 9(1): 85-88. -- Show included taxa

Grasshoff, M. (1970b). Die Tribus Mangorini. I. Die Gattungen Eustala, Larinia s. str., Larinopa n. gen. (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae-Araneinae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 51(3/4): 209-234. -- Show included taxa

Helsdingen, P. J. van & IJland, S. (2024). Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from northern Greece. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 42: 2-18. -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (1986). Spiders of the genera Siwa, Larinia, Lipocrea and Drexelia (Araneae: Araneidae) from Israel. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 7: 1-10. -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (2007). Calommata (Atypidae) and new spider species (Araneae) from Israel. Zootaxa 1551: 1-30. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.1551.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. (2022a). John Alan Murphy (1922–2021) and his contribution to arachnology. Arachnology 19(Special Issue): 77-103. doi: 10.13156/arac.2022.19.sp1.77 -- Show included taxa

Melic, A. (2000c). Arañas de Los Monegros (II): Siwa dufouri (Simon, 1874) (Araneae, Araneidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 1: 59-60. -- Show included taxa

Morano, E., Canelo, T., Gaytán, Á., Pérez-Izquierdo, C. & Bonal, R. (2021). Arañas (Arachnida: Araneae) en encinares centro-occidentales de la Península Ibérica. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 39: 81-103. -- Show included taxa

Morano, E. (2023). La familia Araneidae Clerck, 1757 (Arachnida: Araneae) en al ámbito ibero-balear. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 42: 67-118. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1874a). Les Arachnides de France. Tome premier. Contenant les familles des Epeiridae, Uloboridae Dictynidae, Enyoidae et Pholcidae. Roret, Paris, 273 pp., pl. 1-3. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1929). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 3e partie. Roret, Paris, 533-772. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2011). Extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 6: 1-640. [[publ. in April]] -- Show included taxa

Zonstein, S. L. (2025b). New data on the spider genus Siwa Grasshoff, 1970 (Aranei: Araneidae). Arthropoda Selecta 34(2): 287-293. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.34.2.13 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-06-21 New taxonomic reference entry Zonstein, 2025b
2025-06-21 Species synonymy Zonstein, 2025b Siwa lotan synonymized with Siwa dufouri
2024-12-30 New taxonomic reference entry van Helsdingen & IJland, 2024
2024-12-30 Species distribution update van Helsdingen & IJland, 2024 Old value
2024-01-15 Species distribution update Caria & Pantini, 2023 Old value
2023-07-05 New taxonomic reference entry Morano, 2023
2022-06-14 New taxonomic reference entry Logunov, 2022a
2022-01-10 New taxonomic reference entry Morano et al., 2021
2018-04-27 New taxonomic reference entry Dentici, 2018

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