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Genus: Peucetia Thorell, 1869 | Family: Oxyopidae Thorell, 1869

Peucetia viridis Blackwall, 1858

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Described:

Distribution: Spain, Greece, Africa, Middle East. Introduced to Caribbean Is.

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum Wiesbaden, formerly Naturhistorisches Museum (MWNH), Wiesbaden, Germany m (destroyed) of Peucetia lampei - (Jäger, 1998b)

Taxonomic References

Pasithea viridis Blackwall, 1858a: 428 (Dm) Original description

Oxyopes littoralis Simon, 1866b: 287, pl. 4, f. 13-18 (Dmf)

Peucetia viridis Thorell, 1869: 37

Peucetia viridis Simon, 1900g: 419, f. B (m)

Peucetia lampei Strand, 1906c: 42 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059538]

Peucetia rubra Franganillo, 1925: 37 (nomen nudum)

Peucetia viridissima Franganillo, 1925: 37 (nomen nudum)

Peucetia rubra Franganillo, 1926b: 74 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054511]

Peucetia viridissima Franganillo, 1926b: 73 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054512]

Peucetia viridis Denis, 1955b: 141, f. 47 (f)

Peucetia viridis Denis, 1966e: 128, f. 46 (f)

Peucetia viridis Barrientos, 1991a: 86, f. 2a-d, 3a-c (mf, S of Peucetia rubra and P. viridissima)

Peucetia viridis van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1994: 27, f. 9a-k (mf, S of Peucetia lampei)

Peucetia viridis Levy, 1999a: 53, f. 26A-B, 27A-C (mf)

Peucetia viridis Santos & van Harten, 2002: 365, f. 5-8, p. 5-6 (mf)

Peucetia viridis Santos & Brescovit, 2003: 115, f. 41-44 (mf)

Peucetia viridis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020b: 53, 10 f. (mf)

Peucetia viridis Dippenaar-Schoeman, Haddad & Webb, 2023: 16, f. 1-9 (mf)

References

Barrientos, J. A. (1991a). Peucetia viridis (Blackwall, 1858), caracteres y discussión (Araneae, Oxyopidae). Orsis 6: 83-93. -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1858a). Descriptions of six newly discovered species and characters of a new genus of Araneida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 1(6): 426-434. doi: 10.1080/00222935808696953 -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1955b). Contribution à l'étude de l'Aïr (Mission L. Chopard et A. Villiers). Araignées. Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire 17(A): 99-146. -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1966e). Les araignées du Fezzân. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle d'Afrique du Nord 55: 103-144. -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2020b). The Oxyopidae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 57 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6450695 -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R. & Webb, P. (2023). More on the green lynx spider Peucetia viridis (Blackwall, 1858) in South Africa (Araneae: Oxyopidae). SANSA Newsletter 48: 16-19. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.10276831 -- Show included taxa

Franganillo B., P. (1925). Contribución al estudio de la geografía aracnológica de la Península Ibérica. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica de España 8: 31-40. -- Show included taxa

Franganillo B., P. (1926b). Arácnidos de Andalucía. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica de España 9: 69-82. -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (1999a). The lynx and nursery-web spider families in Israel (Araneae, Oxyopidae and Pisauridae). Zoosystema 21: 29-64. -- Show included taxa

Niekerk, P. van & Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (1994). A revision of the Afrotropical species of Peucetia (Araneae: Oxyopidae). Entomology Memoir, Department of Agriculture Republic of South Africa 89: 1-50. -- Show included taxa

Santos, A. J. & Harten, A. van (2002). On the lynx spiders (Araneae: Oxyopidae) of Socotra Island, Yemen. Fauna of Arabia 19: 363-368. -- Show included taxa

Santos, A. J. & Brescovit, A. D. (2003). A revision of the Neotropical species of the lynx spider genus Peucetia Thorell 1869 (Araneae: Oxyopidae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 34(1): 95-116. doi: 10.1163/187631203788964863 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1866b). Sur quelques araignées d'Espagne. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (4) 6: 281-292, pl. 4. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1900g). Arachnides recueillis par M. Charles van Cassel, sous-officier d'infanterie attaché à la Mission du Cavally (Soudan françois), au poste du Zò, en septembre 1899. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 5(8, 1899): 416-419. [[published Jan. 30, 1900 after Blick & Gloor, 2017: 574]] -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1906c). Über einige Vogelspinnen und afrikanische Spinnen des naturhistorischen Museums zu Wiesbaden. Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 59: 1-45. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1869). On European spiders. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature [first part]. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis (3) 7(I, 5): 1-108. [[incl. pp. 109-242 from 1870]] -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2023-12-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman, Haddad & Webb, 2023
2020-12-01	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020b
2014-07-03	Species distribution update	Bosmans et al., 2013	Old value