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Genus: Trachelas L. Koch, 1872 | Family: Trachelidae Simon, 1897

Trachelas canariensis Wunderlich, 1987

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025493

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Described:

Distribution: Spain, Canary Is., Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Ethiopia, DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Angola, Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany m (37336) - (Haddad & Lyle, 2025)
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) 7m 9f (37310, 37320, 37324; per Haddad & Lyle, 2025 3m 6f) - (Haddad & Lyle, 2025)

Taxonomic References

Trachelas canariensis Wunderlich, 1987a: 238, f. 636-639 (Dmf) Original description

Trachelas canariensis Bosselaers et al., 2009: 22, f. 4, 16-21 (mf)

Trachelas canariensis Bosselaers, 2010a: 23, f. 10-13, 21 (m)

Trachelas canariensis Wunderlich, 2012a: 20, f. 11-14 (mf)

Trachelas canariensis Haddad & Lyle, 2025: 463, f. 2A-L, 3A-K, 4A-L, 5A-F, 6A-D, 8A-D (mf)

References

Bosselaers, J., Urones, C., Barrientos, J. A. & Alberdi, J. M. (2009). On the Mediterranean species of Trachelinae (Araneae, Corinnidae) with a revision of Trachelas L. Koch 1872 on the Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Arachnology 37(1): 15-38. doi: 10.1636/a08-33.1 -- Show included taxa

Bosselaers, J. (2010a). Will the real Trachelas pusillus please stand up? Notes on the type specimen of Trachelas pusillus Lessert, 1923 (Araneae, Corinnidae). Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 6: 23-27. -- Show included taxa

Haddad, C. R. & Lyle, R. (2025). A revision of the genus Trachelas L. Koch, 1872 (Araneae: Trachelidae) in the continental Afrotropical Region. Zootaxa 5673(4): 451-493. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5673.4.1 -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1987a). Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen. Triops Langen, 435 pp. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2012a). Fifteen papers on extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 7: 1-246. -- Show included taxa

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-08-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Haddad & Lyle, 2025
2025-08-07	Species distribution update	Haddad & Lyle, 2025	Old value