Spiroctenus Explained

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, it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985, and to the Bemmeridae in 2020.^[2] It is a senior synonym of Bemmeris, Bessia, and Ctenonemus.

Species

it contains thirty species, all found in southern Africa:^[3]

• 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 – South Africa
• Spiroctenus tricalcaratus (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
• Spiroctenus validus (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa

Nomen dubium

• S. lusitanus Franganillo, 1920

See also

• List of Bemmeridae species

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. 79–138. 17.
• Book: Simon, E. 1903. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Roret . Paris. fr. 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. 348–382. 11. 10.1080/21560382.1900.9525972.
• Hewitt. J.. 1919. Descriptions of new South African Araneae and Solifugae. Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 63–111. 6.

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1889. Descriptions d'espèces africaines nouvelles de la famille des Aviculariidae. Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux. 405–415. 42. Eugène_Simon.
2. Opatova. V.. etal. 2020. Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data. Systematic Biology. 69. 4. 701. 10.1093/sysbio/syz064. 31841157. free.
3. Gen. Spiroctenus Simon, 1889. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-07-11. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.