Taxon details

Family: Eresidae / Genus: Stegodyphus

Stegodyphus africanus (Blackwall, 1866)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-03-26
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005879]
  • Distribution: Cameroon, DR Congo, Angola, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Eswatini, South Africa
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  • Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; 1f 1jf (Kraus & Kraus, 1989)
Taxonomic references
Eresus africanus Blackwall, 1866: 453 (Df).
Stegodyphus luctuosus Simon, 1906b: 306 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053981].
Stegodyphus africanus Strand, 1908m: 69.
Stegodyphus africanus Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 180, f. 13, 32-33, 40, 46-47, 52-53, 77-84, 260, 265 (mf, S of Stegodyphus luctuosus).
Stegodyphus africanus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022a: 38, 7 f. (mf).
References

Blackwall, J. (1866). A list of spiders captured in the south-east region of equatorial Africa, with descriptions of such species as appear to be new to arachnologists. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 18(108): 451-468. doi:10.1080/00222936608679683 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2022a). The Eresidae of South Africa. Version 2. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 46 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6331366 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kraus, O. & Kraus, M. (1989). The genus Stegodyphus (Arachnida, Araneae). Sibling species, species groups, and parallel origin of social living. Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 30: 151-254. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1906b). Etude sur les araignées de la section des cribellates. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 50: 284-308. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1908m). Nordafrikanische Spinnen, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelt (Dictynidae, Eresidae, Sicariidae, Dysderidae, Caponiidae, Palpimanidae, Zodariidae, Urocteidae, Pholcidae, Agelenidae, Pisauridae). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 74(I,1): 67-128. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2022-03-26 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022a n/a
2022-03-26 Species distribution update Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022a n/a (Old value)