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Genus: Nilus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 | Family: Pisauridae Simon, 1890

Nilus massajae Pavesi, 1883

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019801

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Described:

Distribution: Ethiopia, DR Congo, Uganda, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Thalassius gaerdesi Roewer, 1955, 1 f (9910577-137) -
Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium (database excerpt, Feb. 2019) (119560) -
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Thalassius mubaleus Roewer, 1955, 1 f (9910568-137) -

Taxonomic References

Dolomedes massajae Pavesi, 1883: 68 (Df) Original description

Thalassius massajae Strand, 1907m: 701

Thalassius gaerdesi Roewer, 1955b: 288, f. 104 (Df)

Thalassius mubaleus Roewer, 1955b: 302, f. 114 (Df)

Thalassius massajae Sierwald, 1987: 85, f. 35-41, 44-45, 49, 54 (f, Dm, S)

Nilus massajae Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020q: 44, p. 40: 1 f., p. 41: 1 f., p. 44: 5 f. (mf)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2020q). The Pisauridae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 61 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7157775 -- Show included taxa

Pavesi, P. (1883). Spedizione italiana nell'Africa equatoriale. Risultati zoologici. Aracnidi del regno di Scioa. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 20: 5-105. -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1955b). Araneae Lycosaeformia I. (Agelenidae, Hahniidae, Pisauridae) mit Berücksichtigung aller Arten der äthiopischen Region. Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba, Mission G. F. de Witte 30: 1-420. -- Show included taxa

Sierwald, P. (1987). Revision der Gattung Thalassius (Arachnida, Araneae, Pisauridae). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 29: 51-142. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907m). Spinnen des Zoologischen Instituts in Tübingen. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 24: 391-468. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2022-10-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020q
2022-10-11	Species distribution update	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020q	Old value