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Genus: Trichothyse Tucker, 1923 | Family: Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892

Trichothyse hortensis Tucker, 1923

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028041

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Described:

Distribution: Namibia, South Africa

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Lectotype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa f (B5072) - (Sankaran, Haddad & Tripathi, 2025)
Paralectotype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa 1f (B5072) - (Sankaran, Haddad & Tripathi, 2025)

Taxonomic References

Trichothyse hortensis Tucker, 1923: 332, pl. 9, f. 53 (Df) Original description

Trichothyse hortensis Murphy, 2007: 50, f. 382-383 (f; N.B.: see also f. 384-385)

Trichothyse hortensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021D: 28, 7 f. (f)

Trichothyse hortensis Sankaran, Haddad & Tripathi, 2025: 46, f. 10, 16, 34-41 (f)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021D). The Gnaphosidae of South Africa. Part 3 (T-X). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 65 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7197741 -- Show included taxa

Murphy, J. (2007). Gnaphosid genera of the world. British Arachnological Society St Neots, Cambridgeshire 1, i-xii, 1-92; 2, i-ii, 93-605. -- Show included taxa

Sankaran, P. M., Haddad, C. R. & Tripathi, R. (2025). A review of the ground spider genus Trichothyse Tucker, 1923 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 5583(1): 39-70. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5583.1.2 -- 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

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2025-01-31	New taxonomic reference entry	Sankaran, Haddad & Tripathi, 2025
2023-02-27	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021D
2023-02-27	Species distribution update	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021D	Old value