Taxon details

Family: Sparassidae / Genus: Palystes

Palystes karooensis Croeser, 1996

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-06-05
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029383]
  • Distribution: South Africa
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Kwazulu-Natal Museum (NMSA), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; Palystes karooensis Croeser, 1996, (T501); f
  • Paratype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa; 2f (80/168, 87/841) (Marais et al., 2013)
  • Paratype: Albany Museum, Grahamstown (AMG), South Africa; Palystes karooensis Croeser, 1996, (1830); 1f
  • Paratype: Albany Museum, Grahamstown (AMG), South Africa; Palystes karooensis Croeser, 1996, (4281); 2m, 1f, 1j
  • Paratype: Kwazulu-Natal Museum (NMSA), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; Palystes karooensis Croeser, 1996, (T502); 1m
  • Paratype: National Museum, Bloemfontein (NMBA), South Africa; Palystes karooensis Croeser, 1996, (097); 1f
  • Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium; Palystes karooensis Croeser, 1996, (146.161); 1f
  • Paratype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa; Palystes karooensis Croeser, 1996, (C1170); 1f
Taxonomic references
Palystes karooensis Croeser, 1996: 50, f. 45-56 (Dmf).
Palystes karooensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022b: 40, 5 f. (mf).
References

Croeser, P. M. C. (1996). A revision of the African huntsman spider genus Palystes L. Koch 1875 (Araneae: Heteropodidae). Annals of the Natal Museum 37: 1-122. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2022b). The Sparassidae of South Africa. Version 2. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 71 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6614498 download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Date Type Reference Detail
2022-06-05 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022b n/a