Biology:Holopelus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Holopelus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Holopelus
Simon, 1886[1]
Type species
H. bufoninus
Simon, 1886
Species

7, see text

Holopelus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1886.[2]

Species

(As of September 2020) it contains seven species, found in Asia and Africa:[1]

  • Holopelus albibarbis Simon, 1895 – Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), South Africa
  • Holopelus almiae Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1986 – South Africa
  • Holopelus bufoninus Simon, 1886 (type) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
  • Holopelus crassiceps (Strand, 1913)Central Africa
  • Holopelus irroratus (Thorell, 1899) – Cameroon
  • Holopelus malati Simon, 1895India
  • Holopelus piger O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 – Sri Lanka

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Holopelus Simon, 1886. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3640. Retrieved 2020-10-10. 
  2. Simon, E. (1886). "Espèces et genres nouveaux de la famille des Thomisisdae". Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 40: 167–187. 

Further reading

  • Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (1986). "The crab-spiders of southern Africa (Araneae: Thomisidae). 7. The genus Holopelus Simon, 1886". Phytophylactica 18: 187–190. 
  • Simon, E. (1907). "Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 1re partie". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 43: 218–323. 
  • Simon, E. (1895). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Thomisidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 39: 432–443. 
  • Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (1989). "The crab spiders of southern Africa (Araneae: Thomisidae). 8. The genus Thomisops Karsch, 1879". Phytophylactica 21: 319–330. 
  • Strand, E. (1913), "Arachnida. I", in Schubotz, H., Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 1907-1908, unter Führung Adolf Friedrichs, Herzogs zu Mecklenburg 

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