Taxon details
Palystes superciliosus L. Koch, 1875
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2024-12-07
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029394]
- Distribution: Namibia, Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini
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- Holotype: Museum Wiesbaden, formerly Naturhistorisches Museum (MWNH), Wiesbaden, Germany; m (391) of Palystes modificus (Jäger, 1998b)
- Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); f (2882) of Heteropoda natalia
- Lectotype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); m (A0002329) (Croeser, 1996)
- Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; 3 subadult f of Palystes pulchripes (Croeser, 1996)
- Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; 1m 1f of Palystes spenceri (Croeser, 1996)
- Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; 1f of Palystes superciliosus fasciiventris (Croeser, 1996)
- Paralectotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); (2882a) [as syntype]
Heteropoda natalia Karsch, 1878c: 772 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063317].
Olios natalicus Simon, 1880a: 299 (T from Heteropoda).
Palystes spenceri Pocock, 1896a: 58, pl. 8, f. 3 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063319].
Palystes pulchripes Pocock, 1896a: 60, pl. 8, f. 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063320].
Palystes natalius Pocock, 1898c: 222 (T from Olios, S of Palystes spenceri).
Palystes modificus Strand, 1906c: 37 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063316].
Palystes modificus minor Strand, 1906c: 41 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051723].
Palystes superciliosus fasciiventris Strand, 1907a: 541 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063318].
Palystes superciliosus Strand, 1907n: 674 (S of Palystes pulchripes).
Palystes superciliosus fasciiventris Strand, 1907n: 676 (Dmf).
Palystes natalius Järvi, 1912: 68, f. 57, pl. 6, f. 13-15 (f).
Palystes natalius Järvi, 1914: 188.
Palystes natalius Lawrence, 1937: 251 (m).
Palystes superciliosus Croeser, 1996: 56, f. 77-80 (mf, S of Palystes modificus, P. natalius and P. superciliosus fasciiventris).
Palystes superciliosus Nentwig et al., 2020: 27 (S of Palystes modificus minor).
Palystes superciliosus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022b: 49, p. 36: 1 f., p. 49: 5 f., p. 50: 1 f., p. 51: 2 f. (mf).
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. 
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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 -- Show included taxa
Järvi, T. H. (1914). Das Vaginalsystem der Sparassiden. II. Spezieller Teil. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae (A) 4: 118-235. -- 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. -- Show included taxa
Karsch, F. (1878c). Exotisch-araneologisches. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 51: 322-333, 771-826. -- Show included taxa
Koch, L. (1875a). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 12-16]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 577-740, pl. 44-65. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660 -- Show included taxa
Lawrence, R. F. (1937). A collection of Arachnida from Zululand. Annals of the Natal Museum 8: 211-273, pl. 13. -- Show included taxa
Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Gloor, D., Jäger, P. & Kropf, C. (2020). How to deal with destroyed type material? The case of Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 22-29. doi:10.30963/aramit5904 -- 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 -- Show included taxa
Pocock, R. I. (1898c). The Arachnida from the province of Natal, South Africa, contained in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 2(9): 197-226, pl. 8. doi:10.1080/00222939808678036 -- 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] -- Show included taxa
Strand, E. (1906c). Über einige Vogelspinnen und afrikanische Spinnen des naturhistorischen Museums zu Wiesbaden. Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 59: 1-45. -- Show included taxa
Strand, E. (1907a). Vorläufige Diagnosen afrikanischer und südamerikanischer Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 31: 525-558. -- Show included taxa
Strand, E. (1907n). Afrikanische Spinnen (exkl. Aviculariiden) hauptsächlich aus dem Kapland. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 25: 557-731. -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-06-05 | New taxonomic reference entry | Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022b | n/a |
| 2020-03-09 | New taxonomic reference entry | Nentwig et al., 2020 | n/a |
| 2020-03-09 | Species synonymy | Nentwig et al., 2020 | Palystes modificus minor synonymized with Palystes superciliosus |