Stegodyphus Explained
Stegodyphus is a genus of velvet spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1873.[1] They are distributed from Africa to Europe and Asia, with one species (S. manaus) found in Brazil. The name is derived from Ancient Greek Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: στέγω (stegos), meaning "covered".
At least three species are social spiders,[2] and several are known to use ballooning as a method of dispersal.[3]
Species
it contains twenty species:[4]
- Stegodyphus africanus (Blackwall, 1866) – Africa
- Stegodyphus bicolor (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) – Southern Africa
- Stegodyphus dufouri (Audouin, 1826) – North, West Africa
- Stegodyphus dumicola Pocock, 1898 – Central, Southern Africa
- Stegodyphus hildebrandti (Karsch, 1878) – Central, East Africa, Zanzibar
- Stegodyphus hisarensis Arora & Monga, 1992 – India
- Stegodyphus lineatus (Latreille, 1817) (type) – Southern Europe, North Africa to Tajikistan
- Stegodyphus lineifrons Pocock, 1898 – East Africa
- Stegodyphus manaus Kraus & Kraus, 1992 – 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 Yemen
- Stegodyphus pacificus Pocock, 1900 – Jordan, Iran, Pakistan, India
- Stegodyphus sabulosus Tullgren, 1910 – East, Southern Africa
- Stegodyphus sarasinorum Karsch, 1892 – India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar
- Stegodyphus simplicifrons Simon, 1906 – Madagascar
- Stegodyphus tentoriicola Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
- Stegodyphus tibialis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) – India, Myanmar, Thailand, China
- Stegodyphus tingelin Kraus & Kraus, 1989 – Cameroon
Notes and References
- Simon. E.. 1873. Etudes arachnologiques. 2e Mémoire. III. Note sur les espèces européennes de la famille des Eresidae.. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 335–358. 3. 5.
- Majer. M.. etal. 2013. Habitat productivity constrains the distribution of social spiders across continents – case study of the genus Stegodyphus. Frontiers in Zoology. 10. 9. 9. 10.1186/1742-9994-10-9. 23433065. 3599804. free.
- Schneider. J. M.. etal. 2001. Dispersal of Stegodyphus dumicola (Araneae, Eresidae): They do balloon after all!. The Journal of Arachnology. 29. 114–16. 10.1636/0161-8202(2001)029[0114:DOSDAE]2.0.CO;2. 4707752.
- Gen. Stegodyphus Simon, 1873. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-03. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.
