Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Araneus

Araneus apricus (Karsch, 1884)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: f
  • Last updated: 2022-06-07
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014714]
  • Distribution: São Tomé, Tanzania, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Eswatini, Seychelles, Yemen (mainland, Socotra)
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); f (A0003379)
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Epeira aprica Karsch, 1884, (3637)
Taxonomic references
Epeira aprica Karsch, 1884a: 67, f. 8 (Df).
Araneus apricus Dippenaar-Schoeman, Foord & Haddad, 2020: 12, f. 1-8 (f).
Araneus apricus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022d: 16, p. 16: 5 unnumbered f., p. 17: 7 unnumbered f. (f).
References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Foord, S. H. & Haddad, C. R. (2020). Notes on the orb-web spider Araneus apricus (Karsch, 1884) in South Africa (Araneae: Araneidae). SANSA News 36(Supplement): 12-14. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H., Lotz, L. N. & Webb, P. (2022d). The Araneidae of South Africa. Version 2: part 1 (A-C). South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 74 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6326922 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1884a). Arachnoidea. In: Greeff, R. (ed.): Ueber die Fauna der Guinea-Inseln S. Thomé und Rolas. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft zur Beförderung der Gesamten Naturwissenschaften zu Marburg 2: 60-68, 79. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2022-06-07 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022d n/a
2022-06-07 Species distribution update Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022d n/a (Old value)
2020-11-25 Species distribution update Dippenaar-Schoeman, Foord & Haddad, 2020 n/a (Old value)
2020-11-25 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman, Foord & Haddad, 2020 n/a