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Genus: Drassodella Hewitt, 1916 | Family: Gallieniellidae Millot, 1947

Drassodella septemmaculata (Strand, 1909)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026178

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) f (28731) -
Holotype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa f (ENW-X008521) [N.B.: apparently no type, as the locality is not mentioned in Strand, 1909g: 554] - (Mbo & Haddad, 2019)

Taxonomic References

Prosthesima 7-maculata Strand, 1909g: 554 (Df) Original description

Drassodella 7-maculata Tucker, 1923: 314, pl. 9, f. 41 (f, Dm)

Drassodella septemmaculata Mbo & Haddad, 2019: 50, f. 3, 12, 16, 75, 91, 167-168, 193-196 (mf)

Drassodella septemmaculata Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020y: 29, 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

Mbo, Z. & Haddad, C. R. (2019). A revision of the endemic South African long-jawed ground spider genus Drassodella Hewitt, 1916 (Araneae: Gallieniellidae). Zootaxa 4582(1): 1-62. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4582.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1909g). Spinnentiere von Südafrika und einigen Inseln gesammelt bei der deutschen Südpolar-Expedition. In: Drygalsky, E. von (ed.) Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition, 1901-1903, im Auftrage des Reichsamtes des Innern. X. Band. Zoologie II. Band. Georg Reimer, Berlin, pp. 541-596. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.2166 -- Show included taxa

Tucker, R. W. E. (1923). The Drassidae of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 19(2): 251-437, pl. 8-11. -- 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
2019-04-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Mbo & Haddad, 2019