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Genus: Afrotrix Haddad, Zamani & Marusik, 2026 | Family: Agelenidae C. L. Koch, 1837

World Spider Catalog Archive Version 26, generated on 2026-02-02

Afrotrix deserticola (Simon, 1910)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020931

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Described:

Distribution: Namibia, Botswana, South Africa

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Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany f (35030a) - (Haddad, Zamani & Marusik, 2026)
Paralectotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany 1f (35030b) - (Haddad, Zamani & Marusik, 2026)
Paralectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France mm ff (bottle 1943, vial 16951; not found per Haddad, Zamani & Marusik, 2026, probably lost) - (Levy, 1996)

Taxonomic References

Agelena deserticola Simon, 1910b: 205 (Dmf) Original description

Maimuna deserticola Lehtinen, 1967: 246 (T from Agelena)

Benoitia deserticola Levy, 1996: 93 (T from Maimuna)

Afrotrix deserticola Haddad, Zamani & Marusik, 2026: 317, f. 1C, 7G-H (f, T from Benoitia)

References

Haddad, C. R., Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2026). West Side Story: systematics of funnel-weavers (Araneae: Agelenidae: Ageleninae) from arid western South Africa, with two new genera and 16 new species. Zootaxa 5748(3): 301-353. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5748.3.1 -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468. [[second pdf: index and outline by V. D. Roth (unpubl.)]] -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (1996). The agelenid funnel-weaver family and the spider genus Cedicus in Israel (Araneae, Agelenidae and Cybaeidae). Zoologica Scripta 25(2): 85-122. doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1996.tb00154.x -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1910b). Arachnoidea: Araneae (II.). In: Schultze, L. (ed.) Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika. Vierter Band. Systematik und Tiergeographie. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 16: 175-218. -- Show included taxa

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-01-14	New taxonomic reference entry	Haddad, Zamani & Marusik, 2026
2026-01-14	Species transferred to new genus	Haddad, Zamani & Marusik, 2026		Species transferred from Benoitia Lehtinen, 1967 to Afrotrix Haddad, Zamani & Marusik, 2026
2022-06-13	Species distribution update	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020g	Old value
2019-05-21	Species distribution update	Haddad & Marusik, 2019	Old value