Taxon details

Family: Ctenidae / Genus: Afroneutria

Afroneutria velox (Blackwall, 1865)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-11-22
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020725]
  • Distribution: DR Congo, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique
Type deposit provide information
  • Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); 1m 3f (A0003460) of Phoneutria melanogastra Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895 (Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895)
Taxonomic references
Ctenus velox Blackwall, 1865b: 336 (Df).
Phoneutria melanogastra Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895: 36, pl. 1, f. 14 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060886].
Ctenus velox F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898: 15, pl. 3, f. 1-2 (f).
Ctenus marshalli F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898: 26, pl. 4, f. 12-13 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060885].
Ctenus melanogaster Strand, 1907n: 694.
Ctenus melanogaster Arts, 1912: 196, pl. 1, f. 14 (mf).
Ctenus melanogastra Hyatt, 1954: 884 (S of Ctenus marshalli).
Ctenus velox Benoit, 1977n: 700 (S of Ctenus immortalis and C. melanogaster; C. immortalis revalidated by Polotow & Jocqué, 2015: 8).
Afroneutria velox Polotow & Jocqué, 2015: 5, f. 1A-F, 2A-D, 3A-E, 12D, 13A-B (mf, T from Ctenus).
References

Arts, L. des (1912). Zusammenstellung der afrikanischen Arten der Gattung Ctenus. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten 29(2): 183-218. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Benoit, P. L. G. (1977n). Etudes sur les Ctenidae africains (Araneae) V. Gen. Ctenus Walck. - groupe erythrochelis. Revue Zoologique Africaine 91: 698-703. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1865b). Descriptions of recently discovered species and characters of a new genus, of Araneida from the east of Central Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 16(95): 336-352. doi:10.1080/00222936508679441 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

Hyatt, K. H. (1954). The African spiders of the family Ctenidae in the collections of the British Museum (Natural History). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12) 7(84): 877-894, pl. 30-32. doi:10.1080/00222935408651809 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1898). On the cteniform spiders of Africa, Arabia and Syria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 66(1): 13-32, pl. 3-4. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1898.tb03126.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Polotow, D. & Jocqué, R. (2015). Afroneutria, a new spider genus of Afrotropical Ctenidae (Arachnida, Araneae). European Journal of Taxonomy 121: 1-27. doi:10.5852/ejt.2015.121 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907n). Afrikanische Spinnen (exkl. Aviculariiden) hauptsächlich aus dem Kapland. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 25: 557-731. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2015-08-17 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Polotow & Jocqué, 2015 Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Afroneutria immortalis (Arts, 1912)
2015-08-17 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Polotow & Jocqué, 2015 Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Afroneutria immortalis (Arts, 1912)
2015-08-17 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Polotow & Jocqué, 2015 Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Afroneutria immortalis (Arts, 1912)
2015-08-17 Species distribution update Polotow & Jocqué, 2015 n/a (Old value)
2015-08-17 New taxonomic reference entry Polotow & Jocqué, 2015 n/a
2015-08-17 Species transferred to new genus Polotow & Jocqué, 2015 Species transferred from Ctenus to Afroneutria
2014-07-10 New taxonomic reference entry Polotow & Brescovit, 2014 n/a