Taxon details

Family: Gnaphosidae / Genus: Xerophaeus

Xerophaeus aridus Purcell, 1907

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-02-27
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028058]
  • Distribution: Namibia, South Africa
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Taxonomic references
Xerophaeus aridus Purcell, 1907: 319, pl. 15, f. 26 (Df).
Prosthesima aridus Tullgren, 1910: 109, pl. 1, f. 23 (f).
Xerophaeus poweri Hewitt, 1915b: 94, f. 4 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057399].
Xerophaeus aridus Tucker, 1923: 394, pl. 11, f. 87 (m, S of Xerophaeus poweri).
Xerophaeus aridus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021D: 35, 6 f. (mf).
References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021D). The Gnaphosidae of South Africa. Part 3 (T-X). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 65 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7197741 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hewitt, J. (1915b). Descriptions of new South African Arachnida. Records of the Albany Museum Grahamstown 3: 70-106. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Purcell, W. F. (1907). New South African spiders of the family Drassidae in the collection of the South African Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 20(118): 297-336, pl. 13-15. doi:10.1080/00222930709487339 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

Tullgren, A. (1910). Araneae. In: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. Sjöstedts Kilimandjaro-Meru Expedition 20(6): 85-172, pl. 1-4. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6622 download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-02-27 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021D n/a
2019-05-21 Species distribution update Haddad & Marusik, 2019 n/a (Old value)