Taxon details

Family: Hersiliidae / Genus: Hersilia

Hersilia occidentalis Simon, 1907

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006041]
  • Distribution: West, Central, East Africa
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Type deposit provide information
  • It is widely assumend that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France
  • Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC), Belgium (database excerpt, Feb. 2019); Hersilia segregata Benoit, 1967 (112028)
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Hersilia brevimammillata Strand, 1913, (32441)
Taxonomic references
Hersilia occidentalis Simon, 1907d: 248 (Dm).
Hersilia brevimammillata Strand, 1913a: 339 (Df).
Hersilia occidentalis Benoit, 1967b: 30, f. 25, 30, 34-35 (m, Sf).
Hersilia segregata Benoit, 1967b: 24, f. 22, 27 (Df).
Hersilia occidentalis Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006: 62, f. 139-145, 201 (mf, S).
Hersilia occidentalis Foord, 2008: 139, f. 87 (m).
References

Benoit, P. L. G. (1967b). Révision des espèces africaines du genre Hersilia Sav. et Aud. (Aran.-Hersiliidae). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 76: 1-36. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Foord, S. H. & Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (2006). A revision of the Afrotropical species of Hersilia Audouin (Araneae: Hersiliidae). Zootaxa 1347: 1-92. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Foord, S. H. (2008). Cladistic analysis of the Afrotropical Hersiliidae (Arachnida, Araneae) with the first records of Murricia and the description of a new genus from Madagascar. Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 4: 111-142. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1907d). Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 1re partie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 43: 218-323. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1913a). Arachnida. I. In: Schubotz, H. (ed.) Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 1907-1908, unter Führung Adolf Friedrichs, Herzogs zu Mecklenburg. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig. 4(Zool. 2), 325-474. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.7048 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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