Taxon details

Family: Prodidomidae / Genus: Prodidomus

Prodidomus rufus Hentz, 1847

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-11-28
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026510]
  • Distribution: Native probably to Africa, Mediterranean, Israel, Iraq. Introduced to USA, Cuba, Chile, Argentina, St. Helena, China, Japan, New Caledonia
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; f (BMNH 1961.1.18.1) of Prodidomus clarki (Sherwood et al., 2023i)
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; f (9695) of Philodromus hispanus (Pérez & Blasco, 1986)
Taxonomic references
Prodidomus rufus Hentz, 1847: 467, pl. 30, f. 4 (Df).
Prodidomus rufus Hentz, 1867: 108, pl. 18, f. 9 (f).
Miltia gulosa Simon, 1884b: 141 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026489].
Prodidomus rufus Banks, 1892c: 259, f. 12.
Prodidomus gulosus Simon, 1893a: 333, f. 296-299.
Prodidomus imaidzumii Kishida, 1914d: 324, f. 1 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026491].
Prodidomus hispanicus Dalmas, 1919a: 318 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026490].
Prodidomus gulosus Dalmas, 1919a: 318, f. 26 (f).
Prodidomus rufus Bryant, 1935b: 164, f. 1 (f).
Prodidomus hispanicus Hadjissarantos, 1940: 84, f. 30 (Dm).
Prodidomus rufus Bryant, 1949a: 22, f. 1 (Dm).
Hyltonia scottae Birabén, 1954b: 13, f. 1-7 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026431].
Iyoa imaidzumii Kishida, 1959: 374 (in generic nomen nudum).
Prodidomus clarki Cooke, 1964: 284, f. 19 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026480].
Prodidomus rufus Cooke, 1964: 266, f. 15, 29-30 (mf).
Prodidomus rufus Platnick, 1976f: 38, f. 4-5 (f).
Prodidomus imaidzumii Platnick, 1976f: 38, f. 1-3 (f).
Prodidomus rufus Hu & Wang, 1981: 51, f. 1-8 (mf).
Prodidomus hispanus Pérez & Blasco, 1986: 156, f. 7-9 (f).
Prodidomus rufus Song, 1987: 342, f. 296 (mf).
Prodidomus imaidzumii Chen & Zhang, 1991: 240, f. 250.1-5 (mf).
Prodidomus imaidzumii Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 432, f. 14E, 258L-O (mf).
Prodidomus rufus Platnick & Baehr, 2006: 13, f. 24-28 (mf, S of Hyltonia scottae, Miltia gulosa and Prodidomus imaidzumii).
Prodidomus rufus Kamura, 2009: 500, f. 1-4 (f).
Prodidomus rufus Yin et al., 2012: 1150, f. 612a-i (mf).
Prodidomus hispanicus Zonstein, Marusik & Omelko, 2015: 381 (may be a junior S of Prodidomus rufus).
Prodidomus rufus Zhang & Wang, 2017: 576, 4 f. (f).
Prodidomus cfr. rufus Ferrández & Carrillo, 2018: 123, f. 1-4 (m).
Prodidomus rufus Al-Yacoub & Najim, 2022: 240, f. 2A-D, 3A-D (mf).
Prodidomus rufus Sherwood et al., 2023i: 86, 1A-D (f, S of Prodidomus clarki and P. hispanicus).
References

Al-Yacoub, G. A. A. & Najim, S. A. (2022). Prodidomus rufus Hentz, 1847 (Arachnida: Araneae), redescription of female and new record of male from south of Iraq. Commagene Journal of Biology 6(2): 240-241. doi:10.31594/commagene.1118860 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Banks, N. (1892c). On Prodidomus rufus Hentz. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 2: 259-261. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Birabén, M. (1954b). Nuevo genero de la rara familia Prodidomidae. Neotropica 1: 13-16. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bryant, E. B. (1935b). A rare spider. Psyche 42(3): 163-166. doi:10.1155/1935/41571 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bryant, E. B. (1949a). The male of Prodidomus rufus Hentz (Prodidomidae, Araneae). Psyche, Cambridge 56(1): 22-25. doi:10.1155/1949/50897 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chen, Z. F. & Zhang, Z. H. (1991). Fauna of Zhejiang: Araneida. Zhejiang Science and Technology Publishing House, Hangzhou, 356 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Cooke, J. A. L. (1964). A revisionary study of some spiders of the rare family Prodidomidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 142(2): 257-305. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1964.tb04625.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dalmas, R. de (1919a). Synopsis des araignées de la famille des Prodidomidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 87: 279-340. (N.B.: pp. 279-289 published in 1918, remainder, including all systematic changes, published in 1919) download pdf -- Show included taxa

Ferrández, M. Á. & Carrillo, J. (2018). Prodidomus cfr rufus Hentz, 1847 (Araneae: Prodidomidae), una especie “enigmática”. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 32: 123-126. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hadjissarantos, H. (1940). Les araignées de l'Attique. Athens, 132 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hentz, N. M. (1847). Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 5: 443-479, pl. 23-24, 30-31. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hentz, N. M. (1867). Supplement to the descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States by Nicholas Marcellus Hentz (edited by S. H. Scudder, after death of Hentz). Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 11: 103-111. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hu, Y. J. & Wang, J. F. (1981). [Notes on the spider family Prodidomidae (Araneae) new to China]. Journal of Hunan Normal University (nat. Sci.) 1981(2): 51-52. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kamura, T. (2009). Trochanteriidae, Gnaphosidae, Prodidomidae, Corinnidae. In: Ono, H. (ed.) The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, pp. 482-500, 551-557. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kishida, K. (1914d). Japanese spiders (12). Kagaku-sekai [The Scientific World] 8(4): 320-324 = 32-36. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kishida, K. (1959). Aranea. In: Okada, Y. (ed.) An annoted list of animals of Okinawa Islands. Society for Biological Education in Okinawa, Naha, pp. 367-375. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pérez P., J. A. & Blasco, A. (1986). Nota sobre los Prodidominae (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) de la Península Ibérica. Mémoires de la Société Royal Belge d'Entomologie 33: 155-164. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Platnick, N. I. (1976f). On Asian Prodidomus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Acta Arachnologica 27(1): 37-42. doi:10.2476/asjaa.27.37 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Platnick, N. I. & Baehr, B. (2006). A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the family Prodidomidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 298: 1-287. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)298[1:AROTAG]2.0.CO;2 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Gringet, V., Marusik, Y. M. & Sharp, A. (2023i). Prodidomus Hentz, 1847 and Zimiris Simon, 1882 on Ascension Island (Araneae: Prodidomidae). Natura Somogyiensis 41: 85-91. doi:10.24394/NatSom.2023.41.85 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1884b). Descriptions de quelques arachnides des genres Miltia E. S. et Zimiris E. S. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 28(C.R.): 139-142. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1893a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 257-488. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X. (1987). Spiders from agricultural regions of China (Arachnida: Araneae). Agriculture Publishing House, Beijing, 376 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J., Yan, H. M., Bao, Y. H., Xu, X., Tang, G., Zhou, Q. S. & Liu, P. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press, Changsha, 1590 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zhang, Z. S. & Wang, L. Y. (2017). Chinese spiders illustrated. Chongqing University Press, 954 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zonstein, S. L., Marusik, Y. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2015). A survey of spider taxa new to Israel (Arachnida: Araneae). Zoology in the Middle East 61(4): 372-385. doi:10.1080/09397140.2015.1095525 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-11-28 Species synonymy Sherwood et al., 2023i Prodidomus clarki synonymized with Prodidomus rufus
2023-11-28 New taxonomic reference entry Sherwood et al., 2023i n/a
2023-11-28 Species synonymy Sherwood et al., 2023i Prodidomus hispanicus synonymized with Prodidomus rufus
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Al-Yacoub & Najim, 2022 n/a
2023-01-05 Species distribution update Al-Yacoub & Najim, 2022 n/a (Old value)
2019-03-22 New taxonomic reference entry Zhang & Wang, 2017 n/a
2018-07-11 New taxonomic reference entry Ferrández & Carrillo, 2018 n/a
2016-01-12 Species distribution update Zonstein, Marusik & Omelko, 2015 n/a (Old value)