Stegodyphus
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Stegodyphus is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Eresidae. The 21 species are distributed from Africa to Europe and Asia, with one species (S. manaus) found in Brazil.
At least three species are social, and several species are known to use ballooning as a method of dispersal.
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[edit] Name
The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek stegos "covered".
[edit] Species
- Stegodyphus africanus (Blackwall, 1866) (Africa)
- Stegodyphus annulipes (Lucas, 1856) (Brazil)
- Stegodyphus bicolor (O. P.-Cambridge, 1869) (Southern Africa)
- Stegodyphus dufouri (Audouin, 1826) (North, West Africa)
- Stegodyphus dumicola Pocock, 1898 (Central, South Africa)
- Stegodyphus hildebrandti (Karsch, 1878) (Central, East Africa, Zanzibar)
- Stegodyphus hisarensis Arora & Monga, 1992 (India)
- Stegodyphus lineatus (Latreille, 1817) (Europe 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 Aden)
- Stegodyphus pacificus Pocock, 1900 (Jordan, Iran, Pakistan, India)
- Stegodyphus sabulosus Tullgren, 1910 (East, Southern Africa)
- Stegodyphus sarasinorum Karsch, 1891 (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal)
- Stegodyphus simplicifrons Simon, 1906 (Madagascar)
- Stegodyphus tentoriicola Purcell, 1904 (South Africa)
- Stegodyphus tibialis (O. P.-Cambridge, 1869) (India, Myanmar, Thailand)
- Stegodyphus tingelin Kraus & Kraus, 1989 (Cameroon)
[edit] References
- Platnick, N. I. (2006). The world spider catalog, version 7.0. American Museum of Natural History.
[edit] Further reading
- Kraus, O. & Kraus, M. (1992). Eresid spiders in the neotropics: Stegodyphus manaus n.sp. (Arachnida, Araneae, Eresidae). Verh. naturwiss. Ver. Hamburg 33:15-19.
- Schneider, J.M., Roos, J., Lubin, Y. & Henschel, J.R. (2001). Dispersal of Stegodyphus dumicola (Araneae, Eresidae): They do balloon after all! The Journal of Arachnology 29:114-116. PDF
