Biology:Spiroctenus

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Spiroctenus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Bemmeridae
Genus: Spiroctenus
Simon, 1889[1]
Type species
S. personatus
Simon, 1888
Species

30, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Bemmeris Simon, 1903[2]
  • Bessia Pocock, 1900[2]
  • Ctenonemus Simon, 1903[2]

Spiroctenus is a genus of African mygalomorph spiders in the family Bemmeridae. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1889.[3] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae,[3] it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985,[2] and to the Bemmeridae in 2020.[4] It is a senior synonym of Bemmeris, Bessia, and Ctenonemus.[2]

Species

(As of June 2020) it contains thirty species, all found in southern Africa:[1]

  • Spiroctenus armatus Hewitt, 1913South Africa
  • Spiroctenus broomi Tucker, 1917 – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus cambierae (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus coeruleus Lawrence, 1952 – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus collinus (Pocock, 1900) – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus curvipes Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus exilis Lawrence, 1938 – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus flavopunctatus (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus fossorius (Pocock, 1900) – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus fuligineus (Pocock, 1902) – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus gooldi (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus inermis (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus latus Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus lightfooti (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus lignicola Lawrence, 1937 – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus londinensis Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus marleyi Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus minor (Hewitt, 1913) – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus pallidipes Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus pardalina (Simon, 1903) – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus pectiniger (Simon, 1903) – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus personatus Simon, 1888 (type) – Southern Africa
  • Spiroctenus pilosus Tucker, 1917 – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus punctatus Hewitt, 1916 – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus purcelli Tucker, 1917 – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus sagittarius (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus schreineri (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus spinipalpis Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus tricalcaratus (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
  • Spiroctenus validus (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa

Nomen dubium

  • S. lusitanus Franganillo, 1920

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Spiroctenus Simon, 1889. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2034. Retrieved 2020-07-11. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 92. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Simon, E. (1889). "Descriptions d'espèces africaines nouvelles de la famille des Aviculariidae". Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 42: 405–415. 
  4. Opatova, V. (2020). "Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data". Systematic Biology 69 (4): 701. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz064. PMID 31841157. 

Further reading

Wikidata ☰ Q540610 entry