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Genus: Rhode Simon, 1882 | Family: Dysderidae C. L. Koch, 1837

Rhode scutiventris Simon, 1882

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Described:

Distribution: Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Algeria

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Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 3m 2f (6117) - (Beladjal, Bosmans & Maelfait, 1996)

Taxonomic References

Rhode scutiventris Simon, 1882c: 236 (Dm) Original description

Rhode scutiventris Simon, 1893a: 313, f. 275 (m)

Rhode scutiventris Cooke, 1966a: 36, f. 1 (Df)

Rhode scutiventris Deeleman-Reinhold, 1978a: 251, f. 7, 11, 13 (mf)

Rhode scutiventris Beladjal, Bosmans & Maelfait, 1996: 70, f. 5-7 (mf)

Rhode scutiventris Le Peru, 2011: 292, f. 497 (mf)

Rhode scutiventris Barrientos, García-López & Soria, 2019: 5, f. 3a-b (m)

Rhode scutiventris Lecigne, Moutaouakil & Lips, 2025: 130, f. 98A-D (mf)

Rhode scutiventris Zamani & Marusik, 2025: 327, f. 1D-E, 9A-C, 10A-B (mf)

References

Barrientos, J. A., García-López, V. & Soria, F.-J. (2019). Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) del complejo Hundidero-Gato (Málaga, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 35: 3-8. -- Show included taxa

Beladjal, L., Bosmans, R. & Maelfait, J.-P. (1996). Le genre Rhode Simon dans le Maghreb (Araneae, Dysderidae). Revue Arachnologique 11: 65-75. -- Show included taxa

Cooke, J. A. L. (1966a). Synopsis of the structure and function of the genitalia in Dysdera crocata (Araneae, Dysderidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 47: 35-43. -- Show included taxa

Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. (1978a). Les araignées du genre Rhode de Yougoslavie (Araneae, Dysderidae). International Journal of Speleology 9: 251-266. -- Show included taxa

Le Peru, B. (2011). The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522. -- Show included taxa

Lecigne, S., Moutaouakil, S. & Lips, J. (2025). Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1882c). Etudes Arachnologiques. 13e Mémoire. XX. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de la famille des Dysderidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 2: 201-240. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1893a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 257-488. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2025). New taxonomic and faunistic data on Moroccan spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including the description of five new species. Zootaxa 5692(2): 321-337. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5692.2.6 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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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

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

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference
2025-09-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Zamani & Marusik, 2025
2025-04-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Lecigne, Moutaouakil & Lips, 2025
2019-12-31	New taxonomic reference entry	Barrientos, García-López & Soria, 2019