Stasimopus Explained

Stasimopus is a genus of African mygalomorph spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1892.^[1] It is the only genus in the family Stasimopidae.^[2]

Species

it contains forty-five species and two subspecies, found in southern Africa:^[3]

• Stasimopus artifex Pocock, 1902 – South Africa
• Stasimopus astutus Pocock, 1902 – South Africa
• Stasimopus bimaculatus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
• Stasimopus brevipalpis Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
• Stasimopus caffrus (C. L. Koch, 1842) (type) – South Africa
• Stasimopus castaneus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
• Stasimopus coronatus Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
• Stasimopus dreyeri Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
• Stasimopus erythrognathus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
• Stasimopus filmeri Engelbrecht & Prendini, 2012 – South Africa
• Stasimopus fordi Hewitt, 1927 – South Africa
• Stasimopus gigas Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
• Stasimopus griswoldi Engelbrecht & Prendini, 2012 – South Africa
• Stasimopus hewitti Engelbrecht & Prendini, 2012 – South Africa
• Stasimopus insculptus Pocock, 1901 – South Africa
  • Stasimopus i. peddiensis Hewitt, 1917 – South Africa
• Stasimopus kentanicus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
• Stasimopus kolbei Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
• Stasimopus leipoldti Purcell, 1902 – South Africa
• Stasimopus longipalpis Hewitt, 1917 – South Africa
• Stasimopus mandelai Hendrixson & Bond, 2004 – South Africa
• Stasimopus maraisi Hewitt, 1914 – South Africa
• Stasimopus meyeri (Karsch, 1879) – Southeast Africa
• Stasimopus minor Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
• Stasimopus nanus Tucker, 1917 – South Africa
• Stasimopus nigellus Pocock, 1902 – South Africa
• Stasimopus obscurus Purcell, 1908 – South Africa
• Stasimopus oculatus Pocock, 1897 – South Africa
• Stasimopus palpiger Pocock, 1902 – South Africa
• Stasimopus patersonae Hewitt, 1913 – South Africa
• Stasimopus poweri Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
• Stasimopus purcelli Tucker, 1917 – South Africa
• Stasimopus quadratimaculatus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
• Stasimopus qumbu Hewitt, 1913 – South Africa
• Stasimopus robertsi Hewitt, 1910 – South Africa
• Stasimopus rufidens (Ausserer, 1871) – South Africa
• Stasimopus schoenlandi Pocock, 1900 – South Africa
• Stasimopus schreineri Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
• Stasimopus schultzei Purcell, 1908 – South Africa
• Stasimopus spinipes Hewitt, 1917 – South Africa
• Stasimopus spinosus Hewitt, 1914 – South Africa
• Stasimopus steynsburgensis Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
• Stasimopus suffuscus Hewitt, 1916 – South Africa
• Stasimopus tysoni Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
• Stasimopus umtaticus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
  • Stasimopus u. rangeri Hewitt, 1927 – South Africa
• Stasimopus unispinosus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa

In synonymy:

• S. dubius Hewitt, 1913 = Stasimopus robertsi Hewitt, 1910

Further reading

• Purcell. W. F.. 1903. New South African spiders of the families Migidae, Ctenizidae, Barychelidae Dipluridae, and Lycosidae. Annals of the South African Museum. 69–142. 3.
• Hewitt. J.. 1914. Descriptions of new Arachnida from South Africa. Records of the Albany Museum Grahamstown. 1–37. 3.
• Hewitt. J.. 1913. Descriptions of new and little known species of trapdoor spiders (Ctenizidae and Migidae) from South Africa. Records of the Albany Museum Grahamstown. 404–434. 2.
• Engelbrecht. I.. Prendini. L.. 2012. Cryptic diversity of South African trapdoor spiders: three new species of Stasimopus Simon, 1892 (Mygalomorphae, Ctenizidae), and redescription of Stasimopus robertsi Hewitt, 1910. American Museum Novitates. 1–42. 3732. 10.1206/3732.2. 86829293.
• Hewitt. J.. 1927. On some new arachnids from South Africa. Records of the Albany Museum Grahamstown. 416–429. 3.

Notes and References

1. Book: Simon, E. 1892. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Roret . Paris. fr. 10.5962/bhl.title.51973. Eugène_Simon.
2. Opatova. V.. etal. 2020. Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data. Systematic Biology. 69. 4. 671–707. 10.1093/sysbio/syz064. 31841157. free.
3. Gen. Stasimopus Simon, 1892. World Spider Catalog Version 21.0. 2020-07-11. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.