World Spider Catalog

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

Trachelas sylvae Caporiacco, 1949

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025556

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Described:

Distribution: Cameroon, DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya

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Holotype: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona (MCSNV), Italy m - (Haddad & Lyle, 2025)

Taxonomic References

Trachelas sylvae Caporiacco, 1949a: 448, f. 76a-b (Dm) Original description

Trachelas sylvae Haddad & Lyle, 2025: 481, f. 7G-H, 19A-D (m, Df)

References

Caporiacco, L. di (1949a). Aracnidi della colonia del Kenya raccolti da Toschi e Meneghetti negli anni 1944-1946. Commentationes Pontificia Academia Scientiarum 13: 309-492. -- 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

External Resource References

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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
2025-08-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Haddad & Lyle, 2025
2025-08-07	First description of female	Haddad & Lyle, 2025	Old value
2025-08-07	Species distribution update	Haddad & Lyle, 2025	Old value