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

Trabea unicolor Purcell, 1903

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa

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Holotype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa m (3984) - (Russell-Smith, 1982)

Taxonomic References

Trabaea unicolor Purcell, 1903b: 132 (Dm) Original description

Trabaeosa unicolor Roewer, 1955c: 297

Trabea unicolor Russell-Smith, 1982: 85, f. 9A-E (m)

Trabea unicolor Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021l: 67, 3 f. (m)

Trabea unicolor Russell-Smith & Logunov, 2025a: 130, f. D3 (m)

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

Purcell, W. F. (1903b). New South African spiders of the families Migidae, Ctenizidae, Barychelidae Dipluridae, and Lycosidae. Annals of the South African Museum 3: 69-142, pl. 8. -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. -- 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

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-03-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Russell-Smith & Logunov, 2025a
2022-06-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021l