Eresidae C. L. Koch, 1845

Family |   ACCEPTED
N.B.: although usually attributed to C. L. Koch, 1850: 70, the family name was used earlier (see Judson, 2012: 1276).

In synonymy:

Magunia Lehtinen, 1967 = Stegodyphus Simon, 1873 (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 167, 220)

Gen. Stegodyphus Simon, 1873 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03335
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Magunia Lehtinen, 1967: 246 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04786] (type Stegodyphus tentoriicola Purcell, 1904) by Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 167.

Transferred to other genera:

Stegodyphus annulipes (Lucas, 1857) -- see Loureedia

In synonymy:

Stegodyphus affinis Tullgren, 1910 = Stegodyphus lineifrons Pocock, 1898 (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 192)

Stegodyphus arenarius (Kroneberg, 1875, T from Eresus) = Stegodyphus lineatus Latreille, 1817 (Nenilin & Pestova, 1986: 1734)

Stegodyphus assomptioni Berland & Millot, 1940 = Stegodyphus manicatus Simon, 1876 (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 218, m only, f = S. dufouri)

Stegodyphus canus Purcell, 1904 = Stegodyphus bicolor O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 214)

Stegodyphus corallipes Simon, 1906 = Stegodyphus mimosarum Pavesi, 1883 (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 195)

Stegodyphus daliensis (Yang & Hu, 2002, T from Eresus) = Stegodyphus tibialis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 (Yang, Zhu & Zhang, 2008: 72)

Stegodyphus deserticola Purcell, 1908 = Stegodyphus dumicola Pocock, 1898 (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 237)

Stegodyphus filimaculatus Lawrence, 1927 = Stegodyphus bicolor O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 214)

Stegodyphus gregarius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889 = Stegodyphus mimosarum Pavesi, 1883 (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 195)

Stegodyphus lineatus deserticola Simon, 1908 = Stegodyphus lineatus Latreille, 1817 (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 232)

Stegodyphus luctuosus Simon, 1906 = Stegodyphus africanus Blackwall, 1866 (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 180)

Stegodyphus niloticus Simon, 1908 = Stegodyphus dufouri Audouin, 1826 (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 208)

Stegodyphus quadriculatus Franganillo, 1926 = Stegodyphus lineatus Latreille, 1817 (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 232)

Stegodyphus semadohensis Deshmukh, 2013 = Stegodyphus pacificus Pocock, 1900 (El-Hennawy, 2016c: 37)

Stegodyphus simoni Giltay, 1927 = Stegodyphus mimosarum Pavesi, 1883 (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 195)

Stegodyphus socialis Pocock, 1900 = Stegodyphus tibialis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 226)

Nomina dubia:

Stegodyphus bettoni Pocock, 1898g: 517 (j, Kenya) -- Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 186

Stegodyphus duodimidiavittatus Strand, 1906b: 667, 1908m: 70, pl. 2, f. 5a (mf, Ethiopia) -- Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 198

Stegodyphus hisarensis Arora & Monga, 1992: 139, f. 1-3 (f, India) -- Sherwood & Caleb, 2024: 114

Stegodyphus tibifer Strand, 1906b: 687, 1907p: 65 (m, Tanzania) -- Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 180

Stegodyphus africanus (Blackwall, 1866) | | Cameroon, DR Congo, Angola, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Eswatini, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005879
Eresus africanus Blackwall, 1866: 453 (Df) Original description
Stegodyphus luctuosus Simon, 1906b: 306 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053981]
Stegodyphus africanus Strand, 1908m: 69
Stegodyphus africanus Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 180, f. 13, 32-33, 40, 46-47, 52-53, 77-84, 260, 265 (mf, S of Stegodyphus luctuosus)
Stegodyphus africanus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022a: 38, 7 f. (mf)
Stegodyphus bicolor (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) | | Namibia, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005881
Eresus bicolor O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869c: 70, pl. 6, f. 66-69 (Dm) Original description
Stegodyphus canus Purcell, 1904: 134, pl. 10, f. 5 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053977]
Stegodyphus filimaculatus Lawrence, 1927: 4, pl. 3, f. 56 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053979]
Stegodyphus bicolor Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 214, f. 106-107, 113, 118, 174-187 (mf, T from Eresus, S of Stegodyphus canus and S. filimaculatus)
Stegodyphus bicolor Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022a: 39, 7 f. (mf)
Stegodyphus dufouri (Audouin, 1826) | | North, West Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005882
Eresus dufourii Audouin, 1826: 376, pl. 4, f. 12 (Df) Original description
Eresus molitor C. L. Koch, 1846: 7, f. 1082 (Df)
Eresus semicinctus C. L. Koch, 1846: 12, f. 1086 (Dm)
Stegodyphus dufouri Simon, 1885i: 19
Stegodyphus semicinctus Strand, 1906h: 37
Stegodyphus niloticus Simon, 1908b: 80 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053982]
Stegodyphus molitor Strand, 1908m: 69
Stegodyphus dufouri Simon, 1911b: 287, f. 4A (m)
Stegodyphus manicatus Simon, 1911b: 288, f. 4C (m only, misidentified)
Stegodyphus assomptioni Berland & Millot, 1940: 159, f. 12A-B (f, misidentified per Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 218)
Stegodyphus dufouri Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 208, f. 104-105, 111-112, 126-131, 142-173 (mf, S of Stegodyphus niloticus)
Stegodyphus dufouri Kraus & Kraus, 1990: 226, f. 3-5 (f)
Stegodyphus dufouri El-Hennawy, 2009b: 130, f. 1-2, 8, 10 (mf)
Stegodyphus dumicola Pocock, 1898 | | Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005883
Stegodyphus dumicola Pocock, 1898c: 201, pl. 8, f. 7 (Dmf) Original description
Stegodyphus deserticola Purcell, 1908: 217, pl. 11, f. 5 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053978]
Stegodyphus dumicola Lawrence, 1927: 4, pl. 1, f. 1 (f)
Magunia dumicola Lehtinen, 1967: 246, f. 456 (m, T from Stegodyphus)
Stegodyphus dumicola Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 237, f. 31, 195-198, 211, 246-248, 251-253, 256-259, 263 (mf, S of Stegodyphus deserticola, rejecting Lehtinen, 1967: 246, who considered S. deserticola S of Magunia/Stegodyphus tentoriicola)
Magunia dumicola Coddington, 1990: 10, f. 19 (m)
Stegodyphus dumicola Griswold et al., 2005: 24, f. 170D (m)
Stegodyphus dumicola Schendel et al., 2018: 241, f. 3Q-T (f)
Stegodyphus dumicola Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022a: 40, 8 f. (mf)
Stegodyphus hildebrandti (Karsch, 1878) | | Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania (Zanzibar), DR Congo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005884
Eresus hildebrandti Karsch, 1878b: 319, pl. 8, f. 7 (Df) Original description
Stegodyphus hildebrandti Pavesi, 1897b: 180
Stegodyphus africanus Lehtinen, 1967: 265 (S of Stegodyphus hildebrandti; rejected by Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 186)
Stegodyphus hildebrandti Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 186, f. 20, 34, 41, 54-55, 85-88 (f, Dm; m of Tullgren, 1910 = S. mimosarum)
Stegodyphus lineatus (Latreille, 1817) | | Southern Europe, North Africa to Tajikistan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005886
Eresus lineatus Latreille, 1817: vol. 10, p. 393 (Df) Original description
Eresus acanthophilus Dufour, 1820d: 302, pl. 95, f. 3-4 (Dmf)
Eresus acanthophilus Walckenaer, 1837: 399, pl. 11, f. 1 (mf)
Eresus unifasciatus C. L. Koch, 1846: 5, f. 1081 (Df)
Eresus adspersus C. L. Koch, 1846: 8, f. 1083 (Df; N.B.: fuscifrons in legend)
Eresus fuscifrons C. L. Koch, 1846: 9, f. 1084 (Df; N.B.: adspersus in legend)
Eresus lituratus C. L. Koch, 1846: 11, f. 1085 (Df)
Stegodyphus adspersus Simon, 1873d: 337
Stegodyphus molitor Simon, 1873d: 338
Eresus arenarius Kroneberg, 1875: 44, pl. 5, f. 32 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053975]
Stegodyphus lineatus Pavesi, 1876a: 443
Stegodyphus lineatus Simon, 1892a: 253, f. 208
Stegodyphus lineatus deserticola Simon, 1908b: 79 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053980]
Stegodyphus lineatus Simon, 1911b: 286, f. 4A (m)
Stegodyphus lineatus deserticola Simon, 1911b: 287 (Df)
Stegodyphus quadriculatus Franganillo, 1925: 38 (nomen nudum)
Stegodyphus quadriculatus Franganillo, 1926b: 75 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053983]
Stegodyphus lineatus Bacelar, 1929: 252, f. 6-7 (mf)
Stegodyphus lineatus Nenilin & Pestova, 1986: 1734, f. 5-6, 8 (mf, S of Eresus arenarius)
Stegodyphus lineatus Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 231, f. 1-2, 28, 202-205, 227-228, 234-242 (mf, S of Stegodyphus lineatus deserticola and S. quadriculatus)
Stegodyphus lineatus Ergashev, 1990: 44, f. 17-23 (mf)
Stegodyphus lineatus Melic, 1995b: 11, f. 11-16 (mf)
Stegodyphus lineatus El-Hennawy, 2009b: 130, f. 3-4, 9, 11 (mf)
Stegodyphus lineatus Le Peru, 2011: 321, f. 562 (mf)
Stegodyphus lineatus Miller et al., 2012: 106, f. 3A-C, 4K, 11A-D, 15D-F, 18G, J, 79A-J, 80A-F, 81A-F, 82A-F, 83A-F (mf)
Stegodyphus lineatus Schendel et al., 2018: 241, f. 1A-F, 2A-H (f)
Stegodyphus lineatus Breitling, 2020: 343, f. 10B-D (mf)
Stegodyphus lineatus Seyyar & Demir, 2021b: 78, f. 2A-C (f)
Stegodyphus lineatus Najim & Abbas, 2022: 382, f. 2A-D (f)
Stegodyphus lineatus Seropian et al., 2023: 238, f. 12-13 (m)
Stegodyphus lineifrons Pocock, 1898 | | Kenya, Tanzania urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005887
Stegodyphus lineifrons Pocock, 1898g: 516, pl. 42, f. 13 (Df) Original description
Stegodyphus affinis Tullgren, 1910: 97 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050710]
Stegodyphus lineifrons Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 192, f. 89-90 (removed f from S of S. africanus, S of Stegodyphus affinis)
Stegodyphus manaus O. Kraus & M. Kraus, 1992 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005888
Stegodyphus manaus Kraus & Kraus, 1992: 16, f. 1-8 (Dmf) Original description
Stegodyphus manicatus Simon, 1876 | | North, West Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005889
Stegodyphus manicatus Simon, 1876d: 87 (Df) Original description
Stegodyphus manicatus Simon, 1908b: 79 (Dm)
Stegodyphus manicatus Simon, 1911b: 288, f. 4C (f only, m = S. dufouri)
Stegodyphus manicatus Berland & Millot, 1940: 158, f. 10 (mf)
Stegodyphus assomptioni Berland & Millot, 1940: 159, f. 11A-D (m only, f = S. dufouri per Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 218) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053976]
Stegodyphus manicatus Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 218, f. 108, 114-115, 188-194 (mf, Sm of Stegodyphus assomptioni)
Stegodyphus manicatus El-Hennawy, 2009b: 131, f. 5-6, 12-22 (mf)
Stegodyphus mimosarum Pavesi, 1883 | | Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005890
Stegodyphus mimosarum Pavesi, 1883: 81 (Dmf) Original description
Stegodyphus gregarius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889a: 42, pl. 2, f. 4-5 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053853]
Stegodyphus corallipes Simon, 1906b: 305 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050132]
Stegodyphus mimosarum Simon, 1909c: 30
Stegodyphus hildebrandti Tullgren, 1910: 95, pl. 1, f. 5 (m; misidentified per Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 195)
Stegodyphus mimosarum Strand, 1913a: 329
Stegodyphus simoni Giltay, 1927: 105, f. 1-6 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050131]
Stegodyphus mimosarum Lehtinen, 1967: 461, f. 454 (m)
Stegodyphus mimosarum Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 195, f. 3-4, 8-12, 14-19, 37-39, 43-45, 49-51, 58-76, 96-99, 261, 266 (mf, S of Stegodyphus corallipes, S. gregarius and of S. simoni)
Stegodyphus mimosarum Kraus & Kraus, 1990: 226, f. 6-8 (m)
Stegodyphus mimosarum Miller et al., 2012: 113, f. 3E-F, 4L, 11E-H, 15G-I, 18H, K, 84A-J, 85A-F, 86A-D, 87A-F, 88A-F (mf)
Stegodyphus mimosarum Schendel et al., 2018: 241, f. 3A-D (f)
Stegodyphus mimosarum Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022a: 42, 8 f. (mf)
Stegodyphus mirandus Pocock, 1899 | | Pakistan, India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005891
Stegodyphus mirandus Pocock, 1899d: 750 (Dmf) Original description
Stegodyphus mirandus Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 224, f. 207, 212-217 (mf)
Stegodyphus nathistmus O. Kraus & M. Kraus, 1989 | | Morocco to Yemen urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005892
Stegodyphus nathistmus Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 228, f. 29-30, 200-201, 224-226, 229-233 (Dmf) Original description
Stegodyphus pacificus Pocock, 1900 | | Jordan, Iran, Pakistan, India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005893
Stegodyphus pacificus Pocock, 1900a: 209 (Dmf) Original description
Stegodyphus pacificus Dyal, 1935: 131, pl. 11, f. 2
Stegodyphus pacificus Lehtinen, 1967: 461, f. 455 (m)
Stegodyphus pacificus Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 202, f. 102, 109, 116, 119, 121-124, 132-138 (mf)
Stegodyphus semadohensis Deshmukh, 2013: 109, 1a-d (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:046970]
Stegodyphus pacificus El-Hennawy, 2016c: 37 (S of Stegodyphus semadohensis)
Stegodyphus pacificus Schendel et al., 2018: 241, f. 3I-L (f)
Stegodyphus semadohensis Sherwood & El-Hennawy, 2023: 18 (nomen nudum, no type deposition)
Stegodyphus sabulosus Tullgren, 1910 | | Kenya, Tanzania, Eswatini, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005894
Stegodyphus sabulosus Tullgren, 1910: 97, pl. 1, f. 6 (Df) Original description
Stegodyphus sabulosus Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 190, f. 36, 91-95 (f)
Stegodyphus sabulosus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022a: 43, 4 f. (f)
Stegodyphus sarasinorum Karsch, 1892 | | Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005895
Stegodyphus sarasinorum Karsch, 1892: 275, pl. 10, f. 4 (Df) Original description
Stegodyphus sarasinorum Pocock, 1900a: 209, f. 65 (f)
Stegodyphus sarasinorum Bradoo, 1975: 239, f. 9, 11 (mf)
Stegodyphus sarasinorum Tikader & Biswas, 1981: 15, f. 5-7 (f)
Stegodyphus sarasinorum Wunderlich, 1986: 208, f. 199
Stegodyphus sarasinorum Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 204, f. 21-27, 103, 110, 117, 120, 125, 139-141 (mf)
Stegodyphus sarasinorum Gajbe, 2007: 428, f. 16-19 (mf)
Stegodyphus sarasinorum Miller et al., 2012: 116, f. 11I-L, 15J-L, 18I, L, 89A-J, 90A-F, 91A-F, 92A-F, 93A-F, 94A-F, 95A-F (mf)
Stegodyphus sarasinorum Schendel et al., 2018: 241, f. 3E-H (f)
Stegodyphus simplicifrons Simon, 1906 | | Madagascar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005896
Stegodyphus simplicifrons Simon, 1906b: 306 (Df) Original description
Stegodyphus gregarius simplicifrons Strand, 1907o: 8 (downgraded to "var." of S. gregarius)
Stegodyphus gregarius simplicifrons Strand, 1908f: 457, f. C (f)
Stegodyphus simplicifrons Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 194, f. 100-101 (f, resurrected species level, as "doubtful species"; taken here as species inquirenda)
Stegodyphus tentoriicola Purcell, 1904 | | Namibia, Botswana, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005897
Stegodyphus tentoriicola Purcell, 1904: 135, pl. 10, f. 6 (Dmf) Original description
Magunia tentoriicola Lehtinen, 1967: 246, f. 460 (f, T from Stegodyphus, S of S. deserticola; rejected by Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 237, who consider S. deserticola S of S. dumicola)
Stegodyphus tentoriicola Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 235, f. 206, 209-210, 243-245, 249-250, 254-255, 262 (mf)
Stegodyphus tentoriicola Schendel et al., 2018: 241, f. 3M-P (f)
Stegodyphus tentoriicola Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022a: 44, 6 f. (mf)
Stegodyphus tibialis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) | | India, Myanmar, Thailand, China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005898
Eresus tibialis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869c: 71, pl. 6, f. 70-71 (Dm) Original description
Stegodyphus tibialis Simon, 1884n: 343
Stegodyphus socialis Pocock, 1900a: 209 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053984]
Stegodyphus tibialis Phanuel, 1963: 305, f. 1-9 (mf)
Stegodyphus tibialis Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 226, f. 199, 208, 218-223 (mf, S of Stegodyphus socialis)
Stegodyphus tibialis Ono, 1995c: 158, f. 1-3, 22 (m)
Eresus daliensis Yang & Hu, 2002: 726, f. 1-6 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037528]
Stegodyphus tibialis Yang, Zhu & Zhang, 2008: 72, f. A-M (mf, S of Eresus daliensis; N.B.: this was already considered by Rezác, Pekár & Johannesen, 2008: 264, but without explanation)
Stegodyphus tibialis Gunti, Srinivasulu & Devender, 2016: 1, f. 1 (m)
Stegodyphus tibialis Caleb, Karthikeyani & Muthuchelian, 2016: 5, f. 2-8 (f)
Stegodyphus tibialis El-Hennawy, 2016c: 33, f. 1-10 (m)
Stegodyphus tibialis Caleb, 2020b: 15720, f. 7A-G, 25O (f)
Stegodyphus tingelin O. Kraus & M. Kraus, 1989 | | Cameroon urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005899
Stegodyphus tingelin Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 193, f. 7, 35, 42, 48, 56-57 (Dm) Original description

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