Taxon details

Family: Sparassidae / Genus: Eusparassus

Eusparassus walckenaeri (Audouin, 1826)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-07-11
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028821]
  • Distribution: Greece, Turkey, Algeria to Iraq, Sudan
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Drassus civilis Reuss, 1834, 1 f (4575-133)
  • Holotype: Zoological Museum, University of Helsinki (ZMUH), Finland; Sparassus validus Thorell, 1875, (20492); f
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; m (AR16084) of Sparassus fontanieri
  • Neotype: Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen, Dresden (SNSD), Germany; m (851147) of Eusparassus walckenaerii Audouin, 1826 (Moradmand & Jäger, 2012a)
  • Syntype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK; Sparassus cognatus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876, (B.1411); 1f, 10j
Taxonomic references
Philodromus walckenaerii Audouin, 1826: 300, pl. 6, f. 1 (Df).
Philodromus linnaei Audouin, 1826: 300, pl. 6, f. 2 (Dm).
Drassus civilis Reuss, 1834: 207 (Df).
Ocypete tersa C. L. Koch, 1837a: 83, f. 305 (Df).
Ocypete tersa C. L. Koch, 1845: 39, f. 980-981 (f, Dm).
Sparassus cambridgii Simon, 1874b: 257 (Df).
Sparassus validus Thorell, 1875b: 80 (Df).
Sparassus validus Thorell, 1875c: 124 (Df).
Sparassus cognatus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876b: 588 (Dj).
Sparassus tersus Simon, 1880a: 291.
Sparassus walckenaeri Simon, 1880a: 292 (m).
Sparassus fontanieri Simon, 1880a: 294 (Dm).
Sparassus walckenaeri Pavesi, 1880b: 364.
Sparassus extensipes Karsch, 1880c: 383, pl. 12, f. 12 (Dm).
Sparassus linnaei Kulczyński, 1901a: 43 (Df).
Eusparassus walckenaeri Strand, 1908i: 24.
Eusparassus tersus Järvi, 1912: 57, f. 49, pl. 4, f. 4-8 (f).
Eusparassus tersus Järvi, 1914: 173.
Heteropoda civilis Strand, 1916b: 36.
Eusparassus walckenaeri Denis, 1947a: 50, pl. 2, f. 14-16 (mf).
Sparassus walckenaeri Levy, 1989: 132, f. 3-18 (mf, S of Heteropoda civilis, Sparassus cognatus, S. fontanieri, S. kronebergi, S. tersus and S. validus; S. kronebergi revalidated by Moradmand & Jäger, 2012a: 2466).
Eusparassus walckenaerii Saaristo, 2010: 217, f. 32.4-8 (mf).
Eusparassus walckenaeri Moradmand & Jäger, 2012a: 2453, f. 1B, 5A-G, 6A-G, 23A (mf).
Eusparassus walckenaeri Moradmand, 2013: 11, f. 1a-f, 2a-c, 3a-d, 44a-d, 45a-d, 46a-e, 59a-b (mf).
Eusparassus walckenaeri Lecigne, 2016a: 111, f. 7A-B (f).
Eusparassus walckenaeri Siyam, Dunlop & Jäger, 2017: 320, f. 10-12 (m).
References

Audouin, V. (1826). Explication sommaire des planches d'arachnides de l'Égypte et de la Syrie. In: Savigny, M. J. C. L. de: "Description de l'Égypte, ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée franҫaise, publié par les ordres de sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand.". Histoire Naturelle 1(4): 1-339 (arachnids, pp. 99-186, pl. 1-7). [for year of publication and authorship see Sherbourn, 1897, Tollitt, 1986 and ICZN, 1987b; a second edition was publ. in 1829, with different pagination: arachnids, pp. 291-430] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1947a). Results of the Armstrong College expedition to Siwa Oasis (Libyan desert), 1935. Spiders [Araneae]. Bulletin de la Société Fouad 1er d'Entomologie 31: 17-103, pl. 1-6. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Järvi, T. H. (1914). Das Vaginalsystem der Sparassiden. II. Spezieller Teil. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae (A) 4: 118-235. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Järvi, T. H. (1912). Das Vaginalsystem der Sparassiden. I. Allgemeiner Teil. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae (A) 4: 1-131, pl. 1-11. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1880c). Arachnologische Blätter (Decas I). Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften, Dritte Folge 5: 373-409, pl. 12. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1837a). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Dritter Band, pp. 105-119, pl. 106-118 (f. 246-252); Vierter Band, pp. 1-108, pl. 119-138 (f. 253-318). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1845). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Zwölfter Band, pp. 1-166, pl. 397-432 (f. 960-1077). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1901a). Arachnoidea in Colonia Erythraea a Dre K. M. Levander collecta. Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzen Wydzialu Matematyczno Przyrodniczego Akademji Umiejetnosci, Krakow 41: 1-64. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lecigne, S. (2016a). Contribution à la connaissance de l'aranéofaune (Araneae) de Crète (Grèce) et description de la femelle inconnue de Neaetha absheronica Logunov & Guseinov, 2002 (Salticidae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 30(3, 2015): 95-118. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (1989). The family of huntsman spiders in Israel with annotations on species of the Middle East (Araneae: Sparassidae). Journal of Zoology, London 217(1): 127-176. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1989.tb02480.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Moradmand, M. & Jäger, P. (2012a). Taxonomic revision of the huntsman spider genus Eusparassus Simon, 1903 (Araneae: Sparassidae) in Eurasia. Journal of Natural History 46(39-40): 2439-2496. doi:10.1080/00222933.2012.707249 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Moradmand, M. (2013). The stone huntsman spider genus Eusparassus (Araneae: Sparassidae): systematics and zoogeography with revision of the African and Arabian species. Zootaxa 3675: 1-108. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3675.1.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pavesi, P. (1880b). Studi sugli Aracnidi africani. I. Aracnidi di Tunisia. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 15: 283-388. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1876b). Catalogue of a collection of spiders made in Egypt, with descriptions of new species and characters of a new genus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 44(3): 541-630, pl. 58-60. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1876.tb02595.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Reuss, A. (1834). Zoologische Miscellen. Museum Senckenbergianum, Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der beschreibenden Naturgeschichte 1: 195-276. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (2010). Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1874b). Études arachnologiques. 3e mémoire. V. Révision des espèces européennes de la famille des Sparassidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (5) 4: 243-279, pl. 5. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1880a). Révision de la famille des Sparassidae (Arachnides). Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 34(2/3/4): 223-351. [issue 3 and 4 were published in 1881, but a complete seperate extract was available in 1880, see the last page of the pdf] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Siyam, M., Dunlop, J. A. & Jäger, P. (2017). Further spider records from the Republic of the Sudan. Arachnology 17(6): 317-322. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.6.317 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1908i). Nordafrikanische, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelte Clubioniden. Archiv for Mathematik og Naturvidenskab Christiania 29(2): 1-70. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1916b). Systematische-faunistische Studien über paläarktische, afrikanische und amerikanische Spinnen des Senckenbergischen Museums. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 81(A9): 1-153. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1875b). Verzeichniss südrussischer Spinnen. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 11: 39-122. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1875c). Descriptions of several European and North African spiders. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 13(5): 1-204. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2022-07-11 Species distribution update Zamani, Nadolny & Dolejš, 2022 n/a (Old value)
2019-09-18 Species distribution update Moradmand & Jäger, 2012b n/a (Old value)
2017-11-22 New taxonomic reference entry Siyam, Dunlop & Jäger, 2017 n/a
2017-11-22 Species distribution update Siyam, Dunlop & Jäger, 2017 n/a (Old value)
2016-03-18 New taxonomic reference entry Lecigne, 2016a n/a