World Spider Catalog

Genus: Afroceto Lyle & Haddad, 2010 | Family: Trachelidae Simon, 1897

Afroceto africana Simon, 1910

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:024184

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Described:

Distribution: Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany j(f) (27144) - (Haddad, 2019)
Holotype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa f (84/605) of Afroceto arca - (Lyle & Haddad, 2010)
Paratype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa 1m 4f of Afroceto arca - (Lyle & Haddad, 2010)
Allotype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa m (2006/1515) of Afroceto arca - (Lyle & Haddad, 2010)

Taxonomic References

Argistes africanus Simon, 1910b: 201 (Df) [type is subadult] Original description

Afroceto arca Lyle & Haddad, 2010: 339, f. 3-4, 43-49 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043729]

Afroceto africana Haddad, 2019: 447, f. 1-7 (f, T from Argistes, Smf of Afroceto arca)

References

Haddad, C. R. (2019). Transfer of the Namibian Argistes africanus Simon, 1910 (Araneae: Liocranidae) to Afroceto Lyle & Haddad, 2010 (Trachelidae), with a new synonym. Zootaxa 4571(3): 446-450. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.3.13 -- Show included taxa

Lyle, R. & Haddad, C. R. (2010). A revision of the tracheline sac spider genus Cetonana Strand, 1929 in the Afrotropical region, with descriptions of two new genera (Araneae: Corinnidae). African Invertebrates 51(2): 321-384. doi: 10.5733/afin.051.0206 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1910b). Arachnoidea: Araneae (II.). In: Schultze, L. (ed.) Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika. Vierter Band. Systematik und Tiergeographie. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 16: 175-218. -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2019-03-27	Species distribution update	Haddad, 2019	Old value
2019-03-27	New taxonomic reference entry	Haddad, 2019
2019-03-27	Species synonymy	Haddad, 2019		Afroceto arca synonymized with Afroceto africanus
2019-03-27	Species transferred to new genus	Haddad, 2019		Species transferred from Argistes to Afroceto