Dasumia Explained

Dasumia is a genus of woodlouse hunting spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1875.^[1]

Species

it contains fourteen species:^[2]

• Dasumia amoena (Kulczyński, 1897) – Eastern Europe, Russia (Caucasus)
• Dasumia canestrinii (L. Koch, 1876) – Southern Europe
• Dasumia carpatica (Kulczyński, 1882) – Eastern Europe
• Dasumia cephalleniae Brignoli, 1976 – Greece
• Dasumia chyzeri (Kulczyński, 1906) – Eastern Europe
• Dasumia crassipalpis (Simon, 1882) – Syria, Israel
• Dasumia diomedea Caporiacco, 1947 – Italy
• Dasumia gasparoi Kunt, Özkütük & Elverici, 2011 – Turkey
• Dasumia kusceri (Kratochvíl, 1935) – Bulgaria, North Macedonia^[3]
• Dasumia laevigata (Thorell, 1873) (type) – Europe
• Dasumia mariandyna Brignoli, 1979 – Turkey
• Dasumia nativitatis Brignoli, 1974 – Greece
• Dasumia sancticedri Brignoli, 1978 – Lebanon
• Dasumia taeniifera Thorell, 1875 – France, Switzerland, Italy

Notes and References

1. Thorell. T.. 1875. Diagnoses Aranearum Europaearum aliquot novarum.. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 81–108. 18.
2. Web site: Gen. Dasumia Thorell, 1875. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-01. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.
3. Web site: Dasumia kusceri. Spiders of Europe. 6 June 2024.