Taxon details

Family: Trochanteriidae / Genus: Platyoides

Platyoides walteri (Karsch, 1887)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-06-19
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026193]
  • Distribution: Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Eswatini. Introduced to Australia
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); f (6546)
  • Holotype: Liverpool Museum, Liverpool, United Kingdom; f (18.10.90.5) of Platyoides abrahami (Hancock, 1975)
  • Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); 1f (A0000799) of Corimaethes campestratus
  • Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); 1f (28745) of Corimaethes campestratus
  • Syntype: Western Australian Museum (WAM), Perth, Australia; 1j (11/4273) of Corimaethes campestratus (Main & Harvey, 1992)
  • Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; no details given - of Corimaethes campestratus (Main & Harvey, 1992)
Taxonomic references
Hemicloea walteri Karsch, 1887a: 151 (Df).
Platyoides abrahami O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891b: 624, pl. 58, f. 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054417].
Platyoides abrahami Simon, 1893a: 347, f. 310.
Platyoides bottegi Pavesi, 1895a: 509 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054420].
Platyoides laterigradus Pocock, 1898c: 219, pl. 8, f. 12 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054422].
Platyoides bidentatus Purcell, 1907: 298, pl. 13, f. 1-2 (Dmf, preoccupied by Strand, 1906).
Platyoides separatus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1908b: 819, pl. 50, f. 7-12 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054425].
Platyoides simonii O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1908b: 820, pl. 30, f. 13-17 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054426].
Corimaethes campestratus Simon, 1908d: 385 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054421].
Platyoides bidentifer Strand, 1908e: 267 (replacement name) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054419].
Platyoides walteri Platnick, 1985a: 6, f. 11-14 (mf, S of Platyoides abrahami, P. bidentifer, P. bottegi, P. laterigradus, P. separatus and P. simoni).
Platyoides walteri Wunderlich, 1992a: 487, f. 773 (m).
Platyoides walteri Platnick, 2002: 64, f. 161-164 (mf, S of Corimaethes campestratus).
Platyoides walteri Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006: 264, f. 109a-f (mf).
Platyoides walteri Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022h: 15, p. 3: 1 f., p. 4: 1 f., p. 5: 2 f., p. 15: 6 f., p. 16: 2 f. (mf).
References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2022h). The Trochanteriidae of South Africa. Version 2. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 18 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6659336 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jocqué, R. & Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (2006). Spider families of the world. Musée Royal de l'Afrique Central, Tervuren, 336 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1887a). Ueber die geographische Verbreitung der Araneidengattung Hemicloea Thorell. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 30: 151-152. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pavesi, P. (1895a). Esplorazione del Guiba e dei suoi affluenti compiuta dal Cap. Bottego. XVIII. Aracnidi. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 35: 491-537. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1891b). On some new species and two new genera of Araneida. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 58(4, 1890): 620-629, pl. 53. [published in April 1891, after Duncan, 1937] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1908b). On some new and little known Araneidea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 77(4, 1907): 817-829, pl. 50. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1907.tb06960.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Platnick, N. I. (1985a). Studies on Malagasy spiders, 2. The family Trochanteriidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea), with a revision of the genus Platyoides. American Museum Novitates 2808: 1-17. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Platnick, N. I. (2002). A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, and Trochanteriidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 271: 1-243. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2002)271<0001:AROTAG>2.0.CO;2 download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Purcell, W. F. (1907). New South African spiders of the family Drassidae in the collection of the South African Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 20(118): 297-336, pl. 13-15. doi:10.1080/00222930709487339 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1893a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 257-488. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1908d). Araneae. 1re partie. In: Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds.) Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger südwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905. Band 1, Lieferung 12. Gustav Fischer, Jena, pp. 359-446. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.7416 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1908e). Exotisch-araneologisches. I. Amerikanische, hauptsächlich in Peru, Bolivien und Josemitetal in Californien gesammelte Spinnen. II. Spinnen aus Kamerun. III. Übersicht der bekannten Hysterocrates-Arten. IV. Zur Kenntnis der Aranea rufipalpis (Luc.). Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 61: 223-295. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1992a). Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie und Evolution. Beiträge zur Araneologie 1: 1-619. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2022-06-19 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022h n/a
2022-06-19 Species distribution update Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022h n/a (Old value)
2014-12-02 Species updated Error corrected (Old value)