Taxon details

Family: Thomisidae / Genus: Thomisus

Thomisus spiculosus Pocock, 1901

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-01-28
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031506]
  • Distribution: Nigeria, DR Congo, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa
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Taxonomic references
Thomisus spiculosus Pocock, 1901b: 340 (Df).
Olios spiculosus Roewer, 1955c: 596 (lapsus).
Thomisus dottrensi Comellini, 1957: 10, f. 18-19 (Dm).
Thomisus spiculosus Comellini, 1957: 27, f. 44-45 (f).
Thomisus spiculosus Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1983: 11, f. 6a-f (mf, S).
Thomisus spiculosus Heinrichs & Barrion, 2004: 213, f. 625-626 (m).
Thomisus spiculosus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020w: 59, 5 f. (mf).
Thomisus spiculosus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022k: 8, f. 2, 4, 11-15 (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

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., Blake, B., Pelser, D. & Webb, P. (2022k). Notes on two hairy crab spiders Thomisus granulatus Karsch, 1880 and T. spiculosus Pocock, 1901 from South Africa (Araneae: Thomisidae). SANSA Newsletter 42: 6-10. 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

Heinrichs, E. A. & Barrion, A. T. (2004). Rice-feeding insects and selected natural enemies in West Africa: biology, ecology, identification. International Rice Research Institute, Manila & Africa Rice Center, Abidjan, 242 pp. [spiders: pp. 192-222] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1901b). Diagnoses of some new species of spiders from Mashonaland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 7(40): 337-340. doi:10.1080/00222930108678480 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

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-01-28 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020w n/a
2022-07-08 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022k n/a
2021-01-03 New taxonomic reference entry Heinrichs & Barrion, 2004 n/a
2019-06-07 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon n/a (Old value)