Taxon details

Family: Gnaphosidae / Genus: Poecilochroa

Poecilochroa senilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-10-07
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027760]
  • Distribution: Cape Verde, North Africa, Portugal to Turkmenistan
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK; m of Drassus campestratus (Alioua & Bosmans, 2020)
  • Syntype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK; 14f (Alioua & Bosmans, 2020)
  • Syntype: Museo Civico Storia Naturale G. Doria, Genova (MCSNG), Italy; 2f of Poecilochroa incompta (Alioua & Bosmans, 2020)
Taxonomic references
Drassus senilis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 236, pl. 15, f. 13 (Df).
Drassus campestratus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874a: 392, pl. 51, f. 17 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060361].
Prosthesima rufipes Thorell, 1875b: 82 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028368].
Prosthesima rufipes Thorell, 1875c: 110 (Df).
Drassus dimidiatus Simon, 1878a: 153 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060362].
Drassus flavo-maculatus L. Koch, 1878b: 40, pl. 1, f. 2 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026894].
Prosthesima incompta Pavesi, 1880b: 350 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027743].
Scotophaeus senilis Simon, 1893a: 371.
Poecilochroa campestrata Simon, 1893a: 372.
Poecilochroa subincompta Strand, 1908h: 66 (provisional name).
Poecilochroa dimidiata Simon, 1914: 185, 221, f. 347, 400 (mf).
Poecilochroa senilis Levy, 1999d: 431, f. 6-9 (mf, S of Poecilochroa campestrata and P. dimidiata).
Poecilochroa senilis Chatzaki, Thaler & Mylonas, 2002a: 569, f. 8-11 (mf, S of Drassodes flavomaculatus).
Poecilochroa senilis Seyyar, Topçu & Demir, 2006: 119, f. 5 (f).
Poecilochroa senilis Murphy, 2007: 50, f. 370-371 (mf).
Poecilochroa senilis Kovblyuk et al., 2008a: 46, f. 49 (m).
Poecilochroa senilis Kovblyuk & Tuneva, 2009: 157, f. 1-9 (mf).
Macarophaeus senilis Wunderlich, 2011: 46 (possible member of this genus).
Poecilochroa senilis Kovblyuk, Marusik & Omelko, 2013: 424, f. 1-3 (f, S of Zelotes rufipes).
Poecilochroa senilis Lecigne, 2016a: 114, f. 10H-J (f).
Poecilochroa senilis Ponomarev et al., 2017: 161, f. 2 (m).
Poecilochroa cf. senilis Ponomarev et al., 2018a: 248, f. 8-9 (f).
Poecilochroa senilis Alioua & Bosmans, 2020: 123, f. 2-4 (mf, S of Poecilochroa incompta).
Poecilochroa senilis Bosmans & Gavalas, 2023: 50, f. 26A-D (mf).
Poecilochroa senilis Seropian et al., 2024a: 98, f. 14-15 (m).
References

Alioua, Y. & Bosmans, R. (2020). Poecilochroa senilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) recorded for the first time in Algeria and Morocco, with the proposition of a new synonym. Serket 17(2): 121-126. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bosmans, R. & Gavalas, I. (2023). The spiders (Araneae) of the tiny Greek island Iraklia (Kiklades), with the descriptions of 5 new Harpactea species (Araneae: Dysderidae), 3 species new to Europe and 8 new to Greece. Parnassiana Archives 11(Supplementum 1): 1-91. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chatzaki, M., Thaler, K. & Mylonas, M. (2002a). Ground spiders (Gnaphosidae; Araneae) of Crete (Greece). Taxonomy and distribution. I. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 109(3): 559-601. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.79611 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1878b). Kaukasische Arachnoiden. In: Schneider, O. (ed.) Naturwissenschaftliche Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Kaukasusländer auf Grund seiner Sammelbeute. Sitzungs-Berichte der naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Isis in Dresden 1878: 36-71, 159-160, pl. 1-2. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kovblyuk, M. M., Kukushkin, O. V., Gnelitsa, V. A. & Nadolny, A. A. (2008a). Brief Atlas of Spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of Karadag Nature Reserve. N. Orianda, Simpheropol, 102 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kovblyuk, M. M. & Tuneva, T. K. (2009). Three interesting species of Gnaphosidae from Crimea (Arachnida: Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 17: 157-164. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kovblyuk, M. M., Marusik, Y. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2013). On four poorly known species of spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae and Lycosidae) described by T. Thorell from Crimea. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 65(4): 423-427. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lecigne, S. (2016a). Contribution à la connaissance de l'aranéofaune (Araneae) de Crète (Grèce) et description de la femelle inconnue de Neaetha absheronica Logunov & Guseinov, 2002 (Salticidae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 30(3, 2015): 95-118. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (1999d). Spiders of six uncommon drassodine genera (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 45: 427-452. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Murphy, J. (2007). Gnaphosid genera of the world. British Arachnological Society, St Neots, Cambridgeshire 1, i-xii, 1-92; 2, i-ii, 93-605. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pavesi, P. (1880b). Studi sugli Aracnidi africani. I. Aracnidi di Tunisia. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 15: 283-388. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 40(1): 212-354, pl. 13-16. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1872.tb00489.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1874a). On some new species of Drassides. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 42(3): 370-419, pl. 51-52. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1874.tb02495.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Ponomarev, A. V., Alekseev, S. K., Kozminykh, V. O. & Shmatko, V. Y. (2017). Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Stavropol Province, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 26(2): 155-173. doi:10.15298/arthsel.26.2.09 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Ponomarev, A. V., Bastaev, V. V., Dubovikoff, D. A. & Shmatko, V. Y. (2018a). On a small collection of spiders (Aranei) from the Astrakhan Reserve (Russia). Arthropoda Selecta 27(3): 244-256. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.3.09 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Seropian, A., Bulbulashvili, N., Krammer, H.-J., Thormann, J., Hein, N., Karalashvili, L., Karalashvili, N. & Datunashvili, A. (2024a). Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus Barcode of Life (CaBoL) project. Part III. Caucasiana 3: 89-118. doi:10.3897/caucasiana.3.e120883 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Seyyar, O., Topçu, A. & Demir, H. (2006). New records of ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Anatolia. Zoology in the Middle East 38: 118-120. doi:10.1080/09397140.2006.10638175 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1878a). Les arachnides de France. Tome quatrième, contenant la famille des Drassidae. Roret, Paris, 334 pp., pl. 14-16. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1893a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 257-488. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1914). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 1re partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-308. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1908h). Nordafrikanische, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelte Aviculariidae, Drassidae und Theridiidae. Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 64: 11-101. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1875b). Verzeichniss südrussischer Spinnen. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 11: 39-122. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1875c). Descriptions of several European and North African spiders. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 13(5): 1-204. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2011). Extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 6: 1-640. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

* Disclaimer
As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Gloor, D., Hänggi, A., Kropf, C.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 05.2018. doi: 10.24436/1

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-04-27 New taxonomic reference entry Seropian et al., 2024a n/a
2024-04-01 Species distribution update n/a (Old value)
2023-11-23 New taxonomic reference entry Bosmans & Gavalas, 2023 n/a
2020-04-17 Species synonymy Alioua & Bosmans, 2020 Poecilochroa incompta synonymized with Poecilochroa senilis
2020-04-17 New taxonomic reference entry Alioua & Bosmans, 2020 n/a
2020-04-17 Species distribution update Alioua & Bosmans, 2020 n/a (Old value)
2018-09-28 New taxonomic reference entry Ponomarev et al., 2018a n/a
2017-06-22 New taxonomic reference entry Ponomarev et al., 2017 n/a
2016-03-18 New taxonomic reference entry Lecigne, 2016a n/a
2014-06-30 New taxonomic reference entry Kovblyuk, Marusik & Omelko, 2013 n/a
2014-06-30 Species synonymy Kovblyuk, Marusik & Omelko, 2013 Poecilochroa rufipes synonymized with Poecilochroa senilis