Biology:Spiroctenus
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Spiroctenus is a genus of African mygalomorph spiders in the family Bemmeridae. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1889.[1] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae,[1] it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985,[2] and to the Bemmeridae in 2020.[3] It is a senior synonym of Bemmeris, Bessia, and Ctenonemus.[2]
Species
As of September 2025[update] it contains thirty species, all found in southern Africa:[4]
- Spiroctenus armatus Hewitt, 1913 – South 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 – Eswatini
- Spiroctenus tricalcaratus (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
- Spiroctenus validus (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa
- S. lusitanus Franganillo, 1920
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Simon, E. (1889). "Descriptions d'espèces africaines nouvelles de la famille des Aviculariidae". Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 42: 405–415.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 92.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Gen. Spiroctenus Simon, 1889. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2034. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
Further reading
- Tucker, R. W. E. (1917). "On some South African Aviculariidae (Arachnida). Families Migidae, Ctenizidae, Diplotheleae and Dipluridae". Annals of the South African Museum 17: 79–138.
- Simon, E (1903) (in fr). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
- Purcell, W. F. (1902). "New South African trap-door spiders of the family Ctenizidae in the collection of the South African Museum". Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society 11: 348–382. doi:10.1080/21560382.1900.9525972. https://zenodo.org/record/1642179.
- Hewitt, J. (1919). "Descriptions of new South African Araneae and Solifugae". Annals of the Transvaal Museum 6: 63–111.
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