• Source: Spiroctenus

    • Spiroctenus is a genus of African mygalomorph spiders in the family Bemmeridae. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1889. Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985, and to the Bemmeridae in 2020. It is a senior synonym of Bemmeris, Bessia, and Ctenonemus.


    Species


    As of November 2024 it contains thirty species, all found in southern Africa:

    Spiroctenus armatus Hewitt, 1913 – South Africa
    Spiroctenus broomi Tucker, 1917 – South Africa
    Spiroctenus cambierae (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa
    Spiroctenus coeruleus Lawrence, 1952 – South Africa
    Spiroctenus collinus (Pocock, 1900) – South Africa
    Spiroctenus curvipes Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
    Spiroctenus exilis Lawrence, 1938 – South Africa
    Spiroctenus flavopunctatus (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
    Spiroctenus fossorius (Pocock, 1900) – South Africa
    Spiroctenus fuligineus (Pocock, 1902) – South Africa
    Spiroctenus gooldi (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
    Spiroctenus inermis (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa
    Spiroctenus latus Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
    Spiroctenus lightfooti (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa
    Spiroctenus lignicola Lawrence, 1937 – South Africa
    Spiroctenus londinensis Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
    Spiroctenus marleyi Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
    Spiroctenus minor (Hewitt, 1913) – South Africa
    Spiroctenus pallidipes Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
    Spiroctenus pardalina (Simon, 1903) – South Africa
    Spiroctenus pectiniger (Simon, 1903) – South Africa
    Spiroctenus personatus Simon, 1888 (type) – Southern Africa
    Spiroctenus pilosus Tucker, 1917 – South Africa
    Spiroctenus punctatus Hewitt, 1916 – South Africa
    Spiroctenus purcelli Tucker, 1917 – South Africa
    Spiroctenus sagittarius (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa
    Spiroctenus schreineri (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
    Spiroctenus spinipalpis Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
    Spiroctenus tricalcaratus (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
    Spiroctenus validus (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa
    Nomen dubium

    S. lusitanus Franganillo, 1920


    See also


    List of Bemmeridae species


    References




    Further reading


    Tucker, R. W. E. (1917). "On some South African Aviculariidae (Arachnida). Families Migidae, Ctenizidae, Diplotheleae and Dipluridae". Annals of the South African Museum. 17: 79–138.
    Simon, E (1903). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
    Purcell, W. F. (1902). "New South African trap-door spiders of the family Ctenizidae in the collection of the South African Museum". Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 11: 348–382. doi:10.1080/21560382.1900.9525972.
    Hewitt, J. (1919). "Descriptions of new South African Araneae and Solifugae". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 6: 63–111.

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