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Genus: Trabea Simon, 1876 | Family: Lycosidae Sundevall, 1833

Trabea natalensis Russell-Smith, 1982

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019253

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa, Lesotho

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Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK m (1980.5.19.1) - (Russell-Smith, 1982)

Taxonomic References

Trabea natalensis Russell-Smith, 1982: 83, f. 7A-E (Dm) Original description

Trabea natalensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021l: 61, 5 f. (m)

Trabea natalensis Russell-Smith & Logunov, 2025a: 125, f. 27-38, C3-C4, G2 (m, Df)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021l). The Lycosidae of South Africa. Version 1: part 2 (L-Z). South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 82 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6324723 -- Show included taxa

Russell-Smith, A. (1982). A revision of the genus Trabaea Simon (Araneae: Lycosidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 74(1): 69-91. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1982.tb01141.x -- Show included taxa

Russell-Smith, T. & Logunov, D. V. (2025a). New species and new records of the wolf spider genus Trabea Simon, 1876 from South Africa (Araneae: Lycosidae). Arachnology 20(1): 121-131. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.121 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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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
2025-03-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Russell-Smith & Logunov, 2025a
2025-03-13	First description of female	Russell-Smith & Logunov, 2025a	Old value
2022-06-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021l
2022-06-29	Species distribution update	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021l	Old value