Stegodyphus
| Stegodyphus | |
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| Stegodyphus lineatus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Suborder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Eresidae |
| Genus: | Stegodyphus Simon, 1873 |
| Type species | |
| Eresus lineatus Latreille, 1817 | |
| Species | |
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See text. | |
| Diversity | |
| 21 species | |
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Stegodyphus is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Eresidae. The 21 species are distributed from Africa to Europe and Asia, with two species (S. manaus and S. annulipes) found in Brazil.
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The community nesting spider, S. dumicola
At least three species are social spiders.[1] Several species are known to use ballooning as a method of dispersal.[2]
Name
The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek stegos, meaning "covered".
Species
- Stegodyphus africanus (Blackwall, 1866) — Africa
- Stegodyphus bicolor (O. P.-Cambridge, 1869) — Southern Africa
- Stegodyphus dufouri (Audouin, 1826) — North, West Africa
- Stegodyphus dumicola Pocock, 1898 — Central, South Africa
- Stegodyphus hildebrandti (Karsch, 1878) — Central, East Africa, Zanzibar
- Stegodyphus hisarensis Arora & Monga, 1992 — India
- Stegodyphus lineatus (Latreille, 1817) — Europe to Tajikistan
- Stegodyphus lineifrons Pocock, 1898 — East Africa
- Stegodyphus manaus Kraus & Kraus, 1992[3] — 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 Aden
- Stegodyphus pacificus Pocock, 1900 — Jordan, Iran, Pakistan, India
- Stegodyphus sabulosus Tullgren, 1910 — East, Southern Africa
- Stegodyphus sarasinorum Karsch, 1891 — India, Sri Lanka, Nepal
- Stegodyphus simplicifrons Simon, 1906 — Madagascar
- Stegodyphus tentoriicola Purcell, 1904 — South Africa
- Stegodyphus tibialis (O. P.-Cambridge, 1869) — India, Myanmar, Thailand
- Stegodyphus tingelin Kraus & Kraus, 1989 — Cameroon
Notes
- ↑ Majer, M., et al. (2013). Habitat productivity constrains the distribution of social spiders across continents – case study of the genus Stegodyphus. Frontiers in Zoology 10:9.
- ↑ Schneider, J. M., et al. (2001). Dispersal of Stegodyphus dumicola (Araneae, Eresidae): They do balloon after all! The Journal of Arachnology 29 114-16.
- ↑ Kraus, O. & M. Kraus. (1992). Eresid spiders in the neotropics: Stegodyphus manaus n.sp. (Arachnida, Araneae, Eresidae). Verh. naturwiss. Ver. Hamburg 33 15-19.
References
- Platnick, N. I. (2007). The World Spider Catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
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