Biology:Stegodyphus
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Short description: Genus of spiders
| Stegodyphus | |
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| Stegodyphus lineatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Eresidae |
| Genus: | Stegodyphus Simon, 1873[1] |
| Type species | |
| S. lineatus (Latreille, 1817)
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20, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Stegodyphus is a genus of velvet spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1873.[3] They are distributed from Africa to Europe and Asia, with one species (S. manaus) found in Brazil . The name is derived from Ancient Greek στέγω (stegos), meaning "covered".
At least three species are social spiders,[4] and several are known to use ballooning as a method of dispersal.[5]
Species
(As of May 2019) it contains twenty species:[1]
- Stegodyphus africanus (Blackwall, 1866) – Africa
- Stegodyphus bicolor (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) – Southern Africa
- Stegodyphus dufouri (Audouin, 1826) – North, West Africa
- Stegodyphus dumicola Pocock, 1898 – Central, Southern Africa
- Stegodyphus hildebrandti (Karsch, 1878) – Central, East Africa, Zanzibar
- Stegodyphus hisarensis Arora & Monga, 1992 – India
- Stegodyphus lineatus (Latreille, 1817) (type) – Southern Europe, North Africa to Tajikistan
- Stegodyphus lineifrons Pocock, 1898 – East Africa
- Stegodyphus manaus Kraus & Kraus, 1992 – Brazil
- Stegodyphus manicatus Simon, 1876 – North, West Africa
- Stegodyphus mimosarum Pavesi, 1883 – Africa, Madagascar
- Stegodyphus mirandus Pocock, 1899 – India
- Stegodyphus nathistmus Kraus & Kraus, 1989 – Morocco to Yemen
- Stegodyphus pacificus Pocock, 1900 – Jordan, Iran, Pakistan, India
- Stegodyphus sabulosus Tullgren, 1910 – East, Southern Africa
- Stegodyphus sarasinorum Karsch, 1892 – India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar
- Stegodyphus simplicifrons Simon, 1906 – Madagascar
- Stegodyphus tentoriicola Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
- Stegodyphus tibialis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) – India, Myanmar, Thailand, China
- Stegodyphus tingelin Kraus & Kraus, 1989 – Cameroon
The community nesting spider, S. dumicola
Kruger National Park
Nest of S. dumicola
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Stegodyphus Simon, 1873. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/855. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
- ↑ Kraus, O.; Kraus, M. (1989). "The genus Stegodyphus (Arachnida, Araneae). Sibling species, species groups, and parallel origin of social living". Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg 30: 167.
- ↑ Simon, E. (1873). "Etudes arachnologiques. 2e Mémoire. III. Note sur les espèces européennes de la famille des Eresidae.". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3 (5): 335–358.
- ↑ Majer, M. (2013). "Habitat productivity constrains the distribution of social spiders across continents – case study of the genus Stegodyphus". Frontiers in Zoology 10 (9): 9. doi:10.1186/1742-9994-10-9. PMID 23433065.
- ↑ Schneider, J. M. (2001). "Dispersal of Stegodyphus dumicola (Araneae, Eresidae): They do balloon after all!". The Journal of Arachnology 29: 114–16. doi:10.1636/0161-8202(2001)029[0114:DOSDAE2.0.CO;2]. http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v29_n1/arac_29_01_0114.pdf.
Wikidata ☰ Q1835835 entry
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