Taxon details

Family: Thomisidae / Genus: Synema

Synema diana (Audouin, 1826)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-06-30
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031249]
  • Distribution: Tunisia to Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini
Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Thomisus diana Audouin, 1826: 399, pl. 7, f. 1-2 (Df).
Thomisus trematus Walckenaer, 1837: 500 (replacement name for T. d., thought congeneric with Aranea d. Walckenaer, 1805).
Diaea diana O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876b: 580 (Dm).
Synaema diana Simon, 1882b: 224.
Synaema (Baerella) diana Dahl, 1907a: 391.
Synaema diana Lessert, 1919: 148, f. 20, pl. 2, f. 19, 23 (mf).
Synema audouini Roewer, 1951: 449 (replacement name for T. d., but not then thought congeneric with Aranea d. Walckenaer, 1805).
Thomisus trematus Roewer, 1955c: 1691 (nicht zu deuten = nomen dubium).
Synaema diana Levy, 1975: 161, f. 12-15 (mf).
Synaema diana Levy, 1985b: 58, f. 82-85 (mf).
Synaema diana Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1989c: 30, f. 9 (m).
Synema diana Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020w: 16, 14: 1 f., 16: 5 f. (mf).
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

Dahl, F. (1907a). Synaema marlothi, eine neue Laterigraden-Art und ihre Stellung in System. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 3(3): 369-395. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (1989c). An annotated check list of crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae) of Saudi Arabia. Fauna Saudi Arabia 10: 20-30. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2020w). The Thomisidae of South Africa. Part 3 Sm-T. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 79 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7513278 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1919). Araignées du Kilimandjaro et du Mérou (suite). 3. Thomisidae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 27(5): 99-234, pl. 2. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.36325 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (1975). The spider genera Synaema and Oxyptila in Israel (Araneae: Thomisidae). Israel Journal of Zoology 24: 155-175. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (1985b). Araneae: Thomisidae. In: Fauna Palaestina, Arachnida II. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem, 115 pp. 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

Roewer, C. F. (1951). Neue Namen einiger Araneen-Arten. Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins zu Bremen 32: 437-456. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1882b). Étude sur les arachnides de l'Yemen méridional. In: Viaggio ad Assab nel Mar Rosso, dei signori G. Doria ed O. Beccari con il R. Aviso "Esploratore" dal 16 Novembre 1879 al 26 Febbraio 1880. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 18: 207-260, pl. 8. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Tome premier. Roret, Paris, 682 pp., pl. 1-15. [plates in second pdf] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-01-28 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020w n/a
2023-01-28 Species distribution update Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020w n/a (Old value)