Stasimopus

Stasimopus is a genus of African mygalomorph spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1892.[2] It is the only genus in the family Stasimopidae.[1][3]

African cork-lid trapdoor spiders
Female Stasimopus rufidens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Stasimopidae
Opatova & Hedin, 2020
Genus: Stasimopus
Simon, 1892[1]
Type species
S. caffrus
(C. L. Koch, 1842)
Species

45, see text

Species

As of June 2020 it contains forty-five species and two subspecies, found in southern Africa:[1]

  • 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

References
  1. "Gen. Stasimopus Simon, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 21.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
  2. Simon, E (1892). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
  3. Opatova, V.; et al. (2020). "Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data". Systematic Biology. 69 (4): 671–707. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz064.

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. 3: 69–142.
  • Hewitt, J. (1914). "Descriptions of new Arachnida from South Africa". Records of the Albany Museum Grahamstown. 3: 1–37.
  • 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. 2: 404–434.
  • 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. 3732: 1–42.
  • Hewitt, J. (1927). "On some new arachnids from South Africa". Records of the Albany Museum Grahamstown. 3: 416–429.


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