Taxon details


Pararaneus cyrtoscapus (Pocock, 1898)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-09-15
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016883]
  • Distribution: Central, East, Southern Africa, Yemen (Socotra)
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material of Aranea darolicola Strand, 1906 destroyed 1944 (Renner, 1988b)
  • Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material of Aranea paracymbifera Strand, 1906 destroyed 1944 (Renner, 1988b)
  • Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); 3f (A0003425), 1f (A0003427) of Epeira striata Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895
Taxonomic references
Epeira striata Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895: 43, pl. 2, f. 24-25 (Dmf; preoccupied by Doleschall, 1857, see Argiope aemula) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062183].
Araneus cyrtoscapus Pocock, 1898c: 206, pl. 8, f. 2 (Dmf).
Aranea sanguipes Thorell, 1899: 48 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062175].
Araneus hoplophallus Pocock, 1899c: 40 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062171].
Aranea darolicola Strand, 1906b: 623 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062170].
Aranea paracymbifera Strand, 1906b: 624 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062174].
Aranea striata Tullgren, 1910: 163, pl. 4, f. 109 (f).
Araneus striatus Lessert, 1930: 639, f. 15-16 (mf).
Araneus sanguipes Lessert, 1930: 645, f. 20 (Dm, f, S of Araneus haematocnemis; rejected by Grasshoff, 1986: 78, see Neoscona penicillipes).
Pararaneus striatus Caporiacco, 1940b: 299.
Pararaneus paracymbifer Caporiacco, 1941b: 74 (T from Araneus).
Pararaneus striatellus Roewer, 1942a: 869 (replacement name for Epeira striata Bösenberg & Lenz) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062177].
Pararaneus cyrtoscalus Caporiacco, 1947c: 160 (T from Araneus).
Pararaneus cyrtoscapus Grasshoff, 1968: 86, f. 48, 52-54, 60b, 63a-f, 67-73, 82 (mf, S of Araneus darolicola, A. hoplophallus, Pararaneus paracymbifer, P. striatus Bösenberg & Lenz and P. striatellus).
Pararaneus cyrtoscapus Grasshoff, 1986: 78 (S or Araneus sanguipes).
Pararaneus cyrtoscapus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 31, p. 31: 7 f., p. 32: 6 f. (mf).
References

Bösenberg, W. & Lenz, H. (1895). Ostafrikanische Spinnen gesammelt von Herrn Dr. F. Stuhlmann in den Jahren 1888 und 1889. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten 12(2): 27-51. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1940b). Alcuni aracnidi di Somalia. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della R. Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura in Portici 31: 295-305. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1941b). Arachnida (esc. Acarina). Araneae. Missione Biologica Sagan-Omo, Reale Accademia d’Italia, Roma 12(Zoologia 6): 46-175. [the page numbers given at the single species partly refer to a differently paginated reprint] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1947c). Arachnida Africae Orientalis, a dominibus Kittenberger, Kovács et Bornemisza lecta, in Museo Nationali Hungarico servata. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 40: 97-257. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H., Lotz, L. N. & Webb, P. (2022f). The Araneidae of South Africa. Version 2: part 3 (Ne-U). South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 66 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6326991 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Grasshoff, M. (1968). Morphologische Kriterien als Ausdruck von Artgrenzen bei Radnetzspinnen der Subfamilie Araneinae (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 516: 1-100. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Grasshoff, M. (1986). Die Radnetzspinnen-Gattung Neoscona in Afrika (Arachnida: Araneae). Annalen Zoologische Wetenschappen 250: 1-123. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1930). Araignées du Congo recueillies au cours de l'expédition organisée par l'American Museum (1909-1915). Quatrième et dernière partie. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 37: 613-672. 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

Pocock, R. I. (1899c). Descriptions of one new genus and four new species of spiders, collected in the island of Abd-el-Kuri and Sokotra. Bulletin of the Liverpool Museum 2: 7-9, 40-42. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1942a). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940. 1. Band (Mesothelae, Orthognatha, Labidognatha: Dysderaeformia, Scytodiformia, Pholciformia, Zodariiformia, Hersiliaeformia, Argyopiformia). Natura, Buchhandlung für Naturkunde und exakte Wissenschaften Paul Budy, Bremen, 1040 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1906b). Diagnosen nordafrikanischer, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelter Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 30: 604-637, 655-690. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1899). Araneae Camerunenses (Africae occidentalis) quas anno 1891 collegerunt Cel. Dr Y. Sjöstedt aliique. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 25(IV, 1): 1-105. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tullgren, A. (1910). Araneae. In: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. Sjöstedts Kilimandjaro-Meru Expedition 20(6): 85-172, pl. 1-4. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6622 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Detail
2022-06-08 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f n/a