Taxon details

Family: Thomisidae / Genus: Thomisus

Thomisus australis Comellini, 1957

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-01-28
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031414]
  • Distribution: DR Congo, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Lesotho
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany; f (A0002381) of Thomisus mossambicus weidneri (Comellini, 1957)
  • Holotype: Kwazulu-Natal Museum (NMSA), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; m (5689) (Comellini, 1957)
  • Holotype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland; f (ARTO-0027866) of Thomisus mossambicus (Comellini, 1957)
  • Holotype: Kwazulu-Natal Museum (NMSA), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; f (6968) of Thomisus drakensbergensis (Comellini, 1959)
  • Paratype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany; 1f (A0002382) of Thomisus mossambicus weidneri (Comellini, 1957)
  • Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland; 1m (ARTO-0027855) (Comellini, 1957)
  • Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland; f (ARTO-0027867) of Thomisus mossambicus weidneri (Comellini, 1957)
  • Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland; 2f (ARTO-0027858) of Thomisus drakensbergensis (Comellini, 1959)
Taxonomic references
Thomisus australis Comellini, 1957: 6, f. 9-10 (Dm).
Thomisus mossambicus Comellini, 1957: 20, f. 31-32 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063143].
Thomisus mossambicus weidneri Comellini, 1957: 20, f. 33 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063144].
Thomisus australis Comellini, 1959: 112, f. 1-3 (Df).
Thomisus drakensbergensis Comellini, 1959: 114, f. 6-8 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063142].
Thomisus australis Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1983: 30, f. 17a-e (mf, S of Thomisus drakensbergensis, T. mossambicus and T. mossambicus weidneri).
Thomisus australis Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1988: 435, f. 6-7 (mf).
Thomisus australis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020w: 40, 40: 5 f., 41: 2 f. (mf).
References

Comellini, A. (1957). Notes sur les Thomisidae d'Afrique. 2. - Le genre Thomisus. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 55(1-2): 1-32. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Comellini, A. (1959). Notes sur les Thomisidae d'Afrique 3.-Complement du genre Thomisus. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 60: 110-119. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (1983). The spider genera Misumena, Misumenops, Runcinia and Thomisus (Araneae: Thomisidae) of southern Africa. Entomology Memoir, Department of Agriculture Republic of South Africa 55: 1-66. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (1988). An annotated checklist of the crab-spiders of Malawi (Araneae: Thomisidae). I. The genera Misumenops, Runcinia and Thomisus, with a description of a new species. Revue Zoologique Africaine 102: 429-438. 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

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Date Type Reference Detail
2023-01-28 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020w n/a