Taxon details

Family: Tetragnathidae / Genus: Diphya

Diphya simoni Kauri, 1950

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-01-28
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013602]
  • Distribution: South Africa
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museum of Zoology, Lund University (MZLU), Lund, Sweden; f (Tanikawa, 1995b)
  • Holotype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa; f of Diphya tanikawai (Omelko, Marusik & Lyle, 2020)
  • Paratype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa; 1f of Diphya tanikawai (Omelko, Marusik & Lyle, 2020)
Taxonomic references
Diphya capensis Simon, 1894a: 744 (nomen nudum) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049420].
Diphya simoni Kauri, 1950: 71, f. 6 (Df).
Diphya capensis Bonnet, 1956: 1477 (nomen nudum).
Diphya tanikawai Marusik, 2017b: 135, f. 1-6, 13-18 (Df, S of the nomen nudum Diphya capensis) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049419].
Diphya simoni Marusik, 2017b: 127, f. 7-9, 19 (f).
Diphya simoni Omelko, Marusik & Lyle, 2020: 266, f. 1D-F, 2D-E, 3C,E-F, 4A-B,F,H-I, 5A-B,E,G-I, 6D, 7C,H, 8C, 9A-B,D-E, 10F-K, 11A, 12A-P, 13D,K-L (Dm, f, S of Diphya tanikawai).
Diphya simoni Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020t: 6, 4 f. (f).
Diphya tanikawai Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020t: 7, 2 f. (f).
Diphya simoni Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2023a: 8, p. 4: 2 f., p. 5: 1-4, p. 8: 1-8 (mf).
References

Bonnet, P. (1956). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) (2me partie: C-F). Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 919-1926. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2020t). The Tetragnathidae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 46 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7578068 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2023a). The Tetragnathidae of South Africa. Version 2. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 50 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7513261 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kauri, H. (1950). On some South African spiders and harvest-spiders. Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapets i Lund Förhandlingar (Proceedings of the Royal Physiographic Society at Lund) 20(6): 64-79. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. (2017b). A review of Diphya (Aranei: Tetragnathidae) from South Africa. Arthropoda Selecta 26(2): 133-138. doi:10.15298/arthsel.26.2.06 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Omelko, M. M., Marusik, Y. M. & Lyle, R. (2020). A survey of Diphya Nicolet, 1849 (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) from South Africa. Zootaxa 4899(1): 259-279. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4899.1.14 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1894a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 489-760. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-01-28 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020t n/a
2023-01-27 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2023a n/a
2023-01-27 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020t n/a
2020-12-31 New taxonomic reference entry Omelko, Marusik & Lyle, 2020 n/a
2020-12-31 First description of male Omelko, Marusik & Lyle, 2020 n/a (Old value)
2020-12-31 Species synonymy Omelko, Marusik & Lyle, 2020 Diphya tanikawai synonymized with Diphya simoni
2017-06-22 New taxonomic reference entry Marusik, 2017b n/a