Taxon details

Family: Gnaphosidae / Genus: Setaphis

Setaphis subtilis (Simon, 1897)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-12-28
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027962]
  • Distribution: West and South Africa through Ethiopia, Egypt, Middle East to Pakistan, India, Thailand, Philippines
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; f of Mulicymnis lubrica (Platnick & Murphy, 1996)
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; f (lost) of Camillina berlandi (Platnick & Murphy, 1996)
  • Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; 3f (Platnick & Murphy, 1996)
  • Syntype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa; 1f of Camillina luteus (Platnick & Murphy, 1996)
  • Syntype: National Museum of Natural History = United States National Museum (USNM), Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA; 2m (lost) of Zelotes convolutus (Platnick & Murphy, 1996)
  • Syntype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; 2m 2f of Drassodes oppenheimeri (Platnick & Murphy, 1996)
Taxonomic references
Mulicymnis subtilis Simon, 1897h: 97 (Df).
Mulicymnis lubrica Simon, 1905a: 169 (Df).
Camillina luteus Tucker, 1923: 343, pl. 9, f. 60 (Df).
Camillina berlandi Denis, 1945b: 47, f. 13-14 (Df).
Zelotes convolutus Denis, 1953b: 338, f. 3-4 (Dm).
Camillina lutea Roewer, 1955c: 411.
Drassodes oppenheimeri Tikader, 1973a: 186, f. 1-5 (Dmf).
Drassodes lubrica Tikader, 1982b: 406, f. 253-256 (f; as no justification of a generic transfer was provided, and the species is not a Drassodes, no transfer was catalogued by Platnick, 1989b: 477).
Drassodes oppenheimeri Tikader, 1982b: 400, f. 238-243 (mf).
Zelotes cavaleriei Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 184, f. 106a-g (m, misidentified).
Setaphis subtilis Platnick & Murphy, 1996: 9, f. 21-24 (mf, T from Melicymnis [per Roewer], S of Camillina berlandi, C. luteus Drassodes oppenheimeri, Mulicymnis lubrica and Zelotes convolutus).
Setaphis subtilis Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001: 547, f. 948-952 (mf).
Drassodes oppenheimeri Gajbe, 2007: 469, f. 125-130 (mf).
Setaphis subtilis Azevedo, Griswold & Santos, 2018a: 685, f. 8C (f).
Setaphis subtilis Azevedo, Griswold & Santos, 2018b: 604, f. 12g, 19j, S8j, S12h, S13f (f).
Setaphis subtilis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021C: 64, 4 f. (mf).
Setaphis subtilis Abdel-Ghani, Hassan & Sallam, 2023: 33, f. 10a-b (mf).
References

Abdel-Ghani, D. M., Hassan, M. F. & Sallam, G. M. E. (2023). Spiders as a bio-agent factor in a mango greenhouse at Giza Governorate, Egypt. Serket 20(1): 26-38. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Azevedo, G. H. F., Griswold, C. E. & Santos, A. J. (2018a). To complicate or to simplify? Phylogenetic tests of complexity trends and genital evolution in ground spiders (Araneae: Dionycha: Gnaphosidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 84(3): 673-694. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zly016 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Azevedo, G. H. F., Griswold, C. E. & Santos, A. J. (2018b). Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae). Cladistics 34(6): 579-626. doi:10.1111/cla.12226 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Barrion, A. T. & Litsinger, J. A. (1995). Riceland spiders of South and Southeast Asia. CAB International, Wallingford, UK, 700 pp., 16 pls. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. (2001). Forest spiders of South East Asia: with a revision of the sac and ground spiders (Araneae: Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Liocranidae, Gnaphosidae, Prodidomidae and Trochanterriidae [sic]). Brill, Leiden, 591 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1945b). Descriptions d'araignées nord-africaines. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 79(1, 1944): 41-57. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1953b). Spiders of the Yemen, southwest Arabia, collected by the U.S. Naval Medical mission to the Yemen, 1951. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 72(4): 337-343. doi:10.2307/3223479 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021C). The Gnaphosidae of South Africa. Part 2 (E-S). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 70 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7197672 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gajbe, U. A. (2007). Araneae: Arachnida. In: Fauna of Madhya Pradesh (including Chhattisgarh), State Fauna Series. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata 15(1), 419-540. 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

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1897h). Arachnides recueillis par M. M. Maindron à Mascate, en octobre 1896. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 3: 95-98. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1905a). Voyage de M. Maurice Maindron dans l'Inde méridionale (mai à novembre 1901). 7me Mémoire. Arachnides (1re partie). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 74(1-2): 160-180. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. (1973a). Studies on some spiders of the family Gnaphosidae, from India. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Science 77(B): 186-189. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. (1982b). Part 2. Family Gnaphosidae. In: The fauna of India. Spiders: Araneae. Vol. II. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, pp. 295-536. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tucker, R. W. E. (1923). The Drassidae of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 19(2): 251-437, pl. 8-11. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Detail
2023-12-28 New taxonomic reference entry Abdel-Ghani, Hassan & Sallam, 2023 n/a
2023-02-26 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021C n/a
2018-12-11 New taxonomic reference entry Azevedo, Griswold & Santos, 2018b n/a
2018-10-25 New taxonomic reference entry Azevedo, Griswold & Santos, 2018a n/a