Taxon details

Family: Pisauridae / Genus: Nilus

Nilus massajae (Pavesi, 1883)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-10-11
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019801]
  • Distribution: Ethiopia, DR Congo, Uganda, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Thalassius gaerdesi Roewer, 1955, 1 f (9910577-137)
  • Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium (database excerpt, Feb. 2019); (119560)
  • Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Thalassius mubaleus Roewer, 1955, 1 f (9910568-137)
Taxonomic references
Dolomedes massajae Pavesi, 1883: 68 (Df).
Thalassius massajae Strand, 1907m: 701.
Thalassius gaerdesi Roewer, 1955b: 288, f. 104 (Df).
Thalassius mubaleus Roewer, 1955b: 302, f. 114 (Df).
Thalassius massajae Sierwald, 1987: 85, f. 35-41, 44-45, 49, 54 (f, Dm, S).
Nilus massajae Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020q: 44, p. 40: 1 f., p. 41: 1 f., p. 44: 5 f. (mf).
References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2020q). The Pisauridae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 61 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7157775 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pavesi, P. (1883). Spedizione italiana nell'Africa equatoriale. Risultati zoologici. Aracnidi del regno di Scioa. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 20: 5-105. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1955b). Araneae Lycosaeformia I. (Agelenidae, Hahniidae, Pisauridae) mit Berücksichtigung aller Arten der äthiopischen Region. Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba, Mission G. F. de Witte 30: 1-420. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sierwald, P. (1987). Revision der Gattung Thalassius (Arachnida, Araneae, Pisauridae). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 29: 51-142. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907m). Spinnen des Zoologischen Instituts in Tübingen. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 24: 391-468. 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
2022-10-11 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020q n/a
2022-10-11 Species distribution update Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020q n/a (Old value)