Taxon details

Family: Sparassidae / Genus: Palystes

Palystes lunatus Pocock, 1896

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: f
  • Last updated: 2022-06-05
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029386]
  • Distribution: South Africa
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; Palystes lunatus Pocock, 1896; f
Taxonomic references
Palystes lunatus Pocock, 1896a: 60, pl. 8, f. 5 (Df).
Palystes lunatus Croeser, 1996: 37, f. 37-38 (f).
Palystes lunatus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022b: 44, 1 f. (f).
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

Pocock, R. I. (1896a). Descriptions of some new South African spiders of the family Heteropodidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 17(97): 55-64, pl. 8. doi:10.1080/00222939608680323 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
2022-06-05 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022b n/a