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Genus: Austrachelas Lawrence, 1938 | Family: Gallieniellidae Millot, 1947

Austrachelas pondoensis Haddad, Lyle, Bosselaers & Ramírez, 2009

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042778

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa

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Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium f (163974) - (Haddad et al., 2009)
Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium 1m 7f - (Haddad et al., 2009)

Taxonomic References

Austrachelas pondoensis Haddad et al., 2009: 23, f. 9-10, 16-35, 42-49, 68-71 (Dmf) Original description

Austrachelas pondoensis Ramírez, 2014: 234, f. 162F, 167B (mf)

Austrachelas pondoensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020y: 12, 6 f. (mf)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Mbo, Z., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2020y). The Gallieniellidae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 37 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.14065070 -- Show included taxa

Haddad, C. R., Lyle, R., Bosselaers, J. & Ramírez, M. J. (2009). A revision of the endemic South African spider genus Austrachelas, with its transfer to the Gallieniellidae (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 2296: 1-38. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2296.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Ramírez, M. J. (2014). The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 390: 1-374. doi: 10.1206/821.1 (External link) -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-11-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020y
2014-07-25	New taxonomic reference entry	Ramírez, 2014