Taxon details

Family: Gnaphosidae / Genus: Setaphis

Setaphis mollis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-09-09
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027954]
  • Distribution: Algeria to Egypt, Italy (Sicily), Israel
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material destroyed 1944; f of Zelotes quadridentatus (Nentwig et al., 2020)
  • Holotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK; f (Platnick & Murphy, 1996)
  • Lectotype: Museo Civico Storia Naturale G. Doria, Genova (MCSNG), Italy; f of Scotophaeus quadridentatus (Bosmans & Hervé, 2021)
  • Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany; 4f (3291) of Echemus pharetratus (Bosmans & Janssen, 1999)
Taxonomic references
Prosthesima mollis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874a: 381, pl. 51, f. 9 (Df).
Echemus pharetratus Karsch, 1881a: 11, pl. 1, f. 8 (Df).
Prosthesima quadridentata Strand, 1906b: 613 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028358.
Scotophaeus quadridentatus Caporiacco, 1928b: 85, f. 2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027772].
Pseudodrassus quadridentatus Caporiacco, 1935a: 286.
Camillina mollis Schmidt, 1973: 364 (Tf from Echemus per Roewer).
Setaphis mollis Platnick & Murphy, 1996: 12, f. 25-28 (Tf from Camillina, Dm).
Setaphis mollis Levy, 1998c: 97, f. 6-9 (mf).
Setaphis mollis Bosmans & Janssen, 1999: 86, f. 9-12 (mf, S).
Zelotes quadridentatus Nentwig et al., 2020: 24 (nomen dubium).
Setaphis mollis Bosmans & Hervé, 2021: 61 (S of Pseudodrassus quadridentatus and Zelotes quadridentatus, the latter removed from nomen dubium, rejecting Nentwig et al., 2020: 24).
Setaphis mollis Nicolosi et al., 2024: 1019, f. 3a-e (m).
References

Bosmans, R. & Janssen, M. (1999). The ground spider genus Setaphis in the Maghreb countries (Araneae Gnaphosidae). Bulletin & Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 155: 82-90. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bosmans, R. & Hervé, C. (2021). Less is more: eight new synonyms in Mediterranean spiders (Araneae), with a new Pelecopsis species from Tunisia (Linyphiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 61: 58-64. doi:10.30963/aramit6109 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1928b). Resultati zoologici della Missione inviata dalla R. Società Geografica Italiana per l'esplorazione dell'oasi di Giarabub (1926-1927). Aracnidi di Giarabub e di Porto Bardia. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 53: 77-107. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1935a). Escursione del Prof. Nello Beccari in Anatolia. Aracnidi. Monitore Zoologico Italiano 46: 283-289. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1881a). Verzeichniss der während der Rohlfs'schen africanischen Expedition erbeuteten Myriopoden und Arachniden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 47(1): 1-14, pl. 1. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (1998c). The ground-spider genera Setaphis, Trachyzelotes, Zelotes, and Drassyllus (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 44: 93-158. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Gloor, D., Jäger, P. & Kropf, C. (2020). How to deal with destroyed type material? The case of Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 22-29. doi:10.30963/aramit5904 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Nicolosi, G., Pantini, P., Devincenzo, U., Guariento, L. A., Italiano, V., Zanca, L., Sarà, M. & Isaia, M. (2024). New data on spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from the islands of the Strait of Sicily (Southern Italy) with taxonomic notes on Poecilochroa loricata Kritscher, 1996 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) and eight new records for Europe. The European Zoological Journal 91(2): 1009-1034. doi:10.1080/24750263.2024.2390869 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

Platnick, N. I. & Murphy, J. A. (1996). A review of the zelotine ground spider genus Setaphis (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). American Museum Novitates 3162: 1-23. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1973). Zur Spinnenfauna von Gran Canaria. Zoologische Beiträge (N.F.) 19: 347-391. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1906b). Diagnosen nordafrikanischer, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelter Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 30: 604-637, 655-690. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-09-09 New taxonomic reference entry Nicolosi et al., 2024 n/a
2024-09-09 Species distribution update Nicolosi et al., 2024 n/a (Old value)
2021-04-26 Species synonymy Bosmans & Hervé, 2021 Setaphis quadridentatus synonymized with Setaphis mollis
2021-04-26 New taxonomic reference entry Bosmans & Hervé, 2021 n/a
2021-04-26 Species synonymy Bosmans & Hervé, 2021 Setaphis quadridentatus synonymized with Setaphis mollis