World Spider Catalog

Genus: Sorkinius Sherwood, Jocqué, Cazanove & Derepas, 2025 | Family: Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892

Sorkinius coruscus (L. Koch, 1875)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028064

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028064

Described:

Distribution: Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Africa, Yemen

External Resources*: GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

No information available.

Taxonomic References

Drassus coruscus L. Koch, 1875b: 50, pl. 5, f. 5 (Df) Original description

Scotophaeus coruscus Strand, 1908h: 59

Scotophaeus coruscus Strand, 1908l: 20

Xerophaeus coruscus Simon, 1909c: 35

Xerophaeus coruscus Tullgren, 1910: 107, pl. 1, f. 19 (Dm, f)

Xerophaeus coruscus Berland, 1932b: 270, f. 380 (f)

Xerophaeus coruscus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021D: 41, 3 f. (mf)

Sorkinius coruscus Sherwood et al., 2025h: 16, f. 8A (f, T from Xerophaeus)

References

Berland, L. (1932b). Les Arachnides (Scorpions, Araignées, etc.). In: Encyclopédie entomologique. Paris 16, 1-485. -- Show included taxa

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

Koch, L. (1875b). Aegyptische und abyssinische Arachniden gesammelt von Herrn C. Jickeli. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 96 pp., pl. 1-7. -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Jocqué, R., Cazanove, G. & Derepas, B. (2025h). Studies on spider nomenclature V: the taxonomic status of Drassus maillardii Vinson, 1863, with two new synonymies, a neotype, new combinations and a new genus (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 47: 9-18. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1909c). Arachnides. Première partie. In: Voyage de M. Maurice de Rothschild en Ethiopie et dans l'Afrique orientale anglaise (1904-1906). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 53, 29-43. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1908h). Nordafrikanische, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelte Aviculariidae, Drassidae und Theridiidae. Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 64: 11-101. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1908l). Verzeichnis der von Oscar Neumann in Süd-Aethiopien gesammelten Spinnen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 74(I,1): 13-66. -- Show included taxa

Tullgren, A. (1910). Araneae. In: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. Sjöstedts Kilimandjaro-Meru Expedition 20(6): 85-172, pl. 1-4. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.6622 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

* Disclaimer
As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

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	Comment
2026-01-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood et al., 2025h
2026-01-07	Species transferred to new genus	Sherwood et al., 2025h		Species transferred from Xerophaeus Purcell, 1907 to Sorkinius Sherwood, Jocqué, Cazanove & Derepas, 2025
2026-01-07	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon	Sherwood et al., 2025h		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to other taxon
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