Zeria Explained

Zeria is a genus of solpugid camel spiders, first described by Eugène Simon in 1879.^[1]

Species

, the World Solifugae Catalog accepts the following sixty species:^[2]

• Zeria adunca (Roewer, 1933) — Namibia
• Zeria albistriata (Roewer, 1933) — Tanzania
• Zeria angolana (Frade, 1940) — Angola
• Zeria antelopicornis (Lawrence, 1929) — South Africa
• Zeria atra (Roewer, 1933) — Tanzania
• Zeria atrisoma (Roewer, 1933) — Tanzania
• Zeria boehmi (Kraepelin, 1899) — Congo
• Zeria caffra (Pocock, 1897) — South Africa
• Zeria capitulata (Karsch, 1885) — Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya
• Zeria carli (Roewer, 1933) — South Africa
• Zeria celeripes (Hirst, 1911) — South Africa, Zimbabwe
• Zeria davidi (Schenkel, 1932) — Mozambique
• Zeria farimia (Roewer, 1933) — Guinea-Bissau
• Zeria ferox (Pocock, 1895) — South Africa
• Zeria fordi (Hirst, 1907) — Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
• Zeria funksoni (Birula, 1915) — Sudan
• Zeria fusca (C.L. Koch, 1842) — South Africa
• Zeria glabricornis (Lawrence, 1928) — Namibia
• Zeria greta (Roewer, 1933) — Tanzania
• Zeria incerta (Frade, 1940) — Angola
• Zeria kapangana (Benoit, 1960) — Congo
• Zeria keyserlingii (Pocock, 1895) — Cameroon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, Togo
• Zeria kraepelini (Roewer, 1933) — Tanzania
• Zeria langheldi (Roewer, 1933) — Namibia
• Zeria lawrencei (Roewer, 1933) — Angola, Namibia
• Zeria lethalis (C.L. Koch, 1842) — Namibia, South Africa
• Zeria lobatula (Roewer, 1933) — Tanzania
• Zeria loveridgei (Hewitt, 1925) — Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda
• Zeria merope (Simon, 1879) — Kenya, Tanzania
• Zeria meruensis (Tullgren, 1907) — Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania
• Zeria monteiri (Pocock, 1895) — Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe
• Zeria nasuta (Karsch, 1880) — Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
• Zeria neumanni (Kraepelin, 1903) — Ethiopia
• Zeria niassa (Karsch, 1880) — Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia
• Zeria nigrescens (Pocock, 1895) — Kenya, Mozambique
• Zeria obliqua (Roewer, 1933) — Namibia
• Zeria obscura (Kraepelin, 1899) — Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania
• Zeria orthoceras (Roewer, 1933) — Angola
• Zeria paludicola (Pocock, 1895) — Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania
• Zeria parkinsoni (Pocock, 1897) — Ethiopia, Somalia
• Zeria persephone Simon, 1879 — Algeria, Morocco
• Zeria recta (Hewitt, 1919) — Namibia
• Zeria rhodesiana (Hirst, 1911) — Tanzania, Zimbabwe
• Zeria sagittaria (Pocock, 1900) — Botswana, Zimbabwe
• Zeria schlechteri (Purcell, 1899) — Namibia, South Africa
• Zeria schoenlandi (Pocock, 1900) — Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe
• Zeria schoutedeni (Roewer, 1954) — Congo
• Zeria schweinfurthi (Karsch, 1880) — South Sudan
• Zeria sericea (Pocock, 1897) — Angola, Congo, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe
• Zeria serraticornis (Purcell, 1899) — Congo, Ethiopia, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe
• Zeria spiralicornis (Purcell, 1903) — South Africa, Zimbabwe
• Zeria strepsiceros (Kraepelin, 1899) — Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe
• Zeria striata (Kraepelin, 1914) — Namibia
• Zeria sulfuripilosa (Roewer, 1933) — Kenya
• Zeria toppini (Hirst, 1916) — South Africa
• Zeria umbonata (Roewer, 1933) — Namibia
• Zeria vansoni (Lawrence, 1935) — Zimbabwe
• Zeria venator (Pocock, 1897) — Angola, Namibia, South Africa
• Zeria wabonica (Roewer, 1933) — Kenya
• Zeria zebrina (Pocock, 1898) — Kenya, Tanzania

Notes and References

1. E. . Simon . 1879 . Essai d’une classification des Galéodes, remarques synonymiques et description d’espèces nouvelles ou mal connues . Annales de la Société Entomologique de France . 9 . 5 . 93-154.
2. Web site: 2023 . Zeria Simon, 1879 . 13 August 2023 . World Solifugae Catalog . Natural History Museum Bern.