Taxon details

Family: Selenopidae / Genus: Selenops

Selenops vigilans Pocock, 1898

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2021-12-08
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028714]
  • Distribution: West, Central, East Africa, Madagascar
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  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; f (Benoit, 1968a)
Taxonomic references
Selenops vigilans Pocock, 1898d: 349, f. 2 (Df).
Selenops werneri Simon, 1906a: 1167 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053615].
Selenops vigilans Lessert, 1915a: 40, pl. 2, f. 37-38 (Dm).
Selenops werneri Berland, 1922: 62, f. 3, pl. A4, f. 1 (f).
Selenops vigilans Lessert, 1929: 125 (S of Selenops werneri).
Selenops werneri Berland, 1932b: 270, f. 384 (f).
Selenops vigilans Benoit, 1968a: 136, f. 26-28 (mf).
Selenops vigilans Benoit, 1975a: 930, f. 7 (f).
Selenops vigilans Corronca, 2002: 29, f. 74-78 (mf).
References

Benoit, P. L. G. (1968a). Les Selenopidae africains au Nord du 17e parallèle Sud et reclassement des espèces africaines de la famille (Araneae). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 77(1-2): 113-141. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Benoit, P. L. G. (1975a). Notules arachnologiques africaines. IV. Revue Zoologique Africaine 89: 925-933. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Berland, L. (1922). Araignées. In: Voyage de M. le Baron Maurice de Rothschild en Éthiopie et en Afrique orientale anglaise (1904-1905). Résultats scientifiques. Animeux articulés. Première partie. Imprimerie nationale, Paris, pp. 43-90, pl. A1-A5. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.66850 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Berland, L. (1932b). Les Arachnides (Scorpions, Araignées, etc.). In: Encyclopédie entomologique. Paris 16, 1-485. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Corronca, J. A. (2002). A taxonomic revision of the afrotropical species of Selenops Latreille, 1819 (Araneae, Selenopidae). Zootaxa 107: 1-35. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.107.1.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1915a). Arachnides de l'Ouganda et de l'Afrique orientale allemande. Voyage du Dr J. Carl dans la région des lacs de l'Afrique centrale. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 23(1): 1-89, pl. 1-3. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1929). Araignées du Congo recueillies au cours de l'expédition organisée par l'American Museum (1909-1915). Troisième partie. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 36(1): 103-159. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.117628 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1898d). Descriptions of three new species of spiders of the genus Selenops. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 2(10): 348-351. doi:10.1080/00222939808678053 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1906a). Ergebnisse der mit Subvention aus der Erbschaft Treitl unternommenen zoologischen Forschungsreise Dr F. Werner's nach dem ägyptischen Sudan und Nord-Uganda. VII. Araneida. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, Wien 115: 1159-1176. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2021-12-08 New taxonomic reference entry Lessert, 1929 n/a
2021-12-08 Species synonymy Lessert, 1929 Selenops werneri synonymized with Selenops vigilans