Biology:Damastes (spider)
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Sparassidae |
| Genus: | Damastes Simon, 1880[1] |
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Damastes is a genus of East African huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1880.[2] It is classified under the family Sparassidae, though its subfamilial classification remains unclear.[3][4] The subspecies Damastes coquereli affinis is a nomen dubium.[5]
Species
(As of September 2019) it contains sixteen species, found on the Seychelles, in Mozambique, and on Madagascar :[1]
- Damastes atrignathus Strand, 1908 – Madagascar
- Damastes coquereli Simon, 1880 – Madagascar
- Damastes decoratus (Simon, 1897) – Madagascar
- Damastes fasciolatus (Simon, 1903) – Madagascar
- Damastes flavomaculatus Simon, 1880 – Madagascar
- Damastes grandidieri Simon, 1880 (type) – Madagascar
- Damastes majungensis Strand, 1907 – Madagascar
- Damastes malagassus (Fage, 1926) – Madagascar
- Damastes malagasus (Karsch, 1881) – Madagascar
- Damastes masculinus Strand, 1908 – Madagascar
- Damastes nigrichelis (Strand, 1907) – Mozambique
- Damastes nossibeensis Strand, 1907 – Madagascar
- Damastes oswaldi Lenz, 1891 – Madagascar
- Damastes pallidus (Schenkel, 1937) – Madagascar
- Damastes sikoranus Strand, 1906 – Madagascar
- Damastes validus (Blackwall, 1877) – Seychelles
Trapping prey
An unspecified Damastes species has been observed in the Sava Region of northeast Madagascar predating on vertebrates (frogs, Heterixalus andrakata).[6][7][8] The same spider - and others of the same species - also build structures of leaves and silk and hide in the back of them.[6][7][8] It is speculated that these are traps for catching these frogs.[6][7][8]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gen. Damastes Simon, 1880. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3105. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
- ↑ Simon, E. (1880). "Révision de la famille des Sparassidae (Arachnides)". Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 34: 223–351.
- ↑ Peter Jäger (2002). "Heteropodinae: Transfers and Synonymies (Arachnida: Araneae: Sparassidae". Acta Arachnologica 51 (1): 33–61. doi:10.2476/asjaa.51.33. http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/abteilung/terrzool/arachnologie/heteropodinae_jaeger_2002.pdf.
- ↑ Peter Jäger (1997). "First results of a taxonomic revision of the SE Asian Sparassidae (Araneae)". Proceedings of the 17th European Colloquium of Arachnology, Edinburgh 1997: 53–59. Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20120426055523/http://www.european-arachnology.org/proceedings/17th/6Jager.pdf.
- ↑ Strand, E. (1907). "Diagnosen neuer Spinnen aus Madagaskar und Sansibar". Zoologischer Anzeiger 31: 725–748.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Buehler, Jake (2021-01-04). "These spiders may sew leaves into fake shelters to lure frogs to their doom". http://www.sciencenews.org/article/hunstman-spiders-leaves-fake-shelters-frogs.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Yirka, Bob (2021-01-11). "Evidence of huntsman spider creating leaf trap for a frog found in Madagascar". http://phys.org/news/2021-01-evidence-huntsman-spider-leaf-frog.html.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Fulgence, Thio Rosin; Martin, Dominic Andreas; Kreft, Holger; Ratsoavina, Fanomezana Mihaja; Andrianarimisa, Aristide (2020-12-11). "Spider traps amphibian in northeastern Madagascar". Ecology and Evolution (Wiley Publishing) 11 (2): 682–687. doi:10.1002/ece3.7102. ISSN 2045-7758.
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