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Genus: Palystes L. Koch, 1875 | Family: Sparassidae Bertkau, 1872

Palystes superciliosus L. Koch, 1875

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Described:

Distribution: Namibia, Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum Wiesbaden, formerly Naturhistorisches Museum (MWNH), Wiesbaden, Germany m (391) of Palystes modificus - (Jäger, 1998b)
Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) f (2882) of Heteropoda natalia -
Lectotype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019) m (A0002329) - (Croeser, 1996)
Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 3 subadult f of Palystes pulchripes - (Croeser, 1996)
Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 1m 1f of Palystes spenceri - (Croeser, 1996)
Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 1f of Palystes superciliosus fasciiventris - (Croeser, 1996)
Paralectotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) (2882a) [as syntype] -

Taxonomic References

Palystes superciliosus L. Koch, 1875a: 706, pl. 61, f. 1 (Dmf) Original description

Palystes superciliosus Croeser, 1996: 56, f. 77-80 (mf, S of Palystes modificus, P. natalius and P. superciliosus fasciiventris)

Heteropoda natalia Karsch, 1878c: 772 (Df)

Palystes superciliosus Nentwig et al., 2020: 27 (S of Palystes modificus minor)

Olios natalicus Simon, 1880a: 299 (T from Heteropoda)

Palystes superciliosus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022b: 49, p. 36: 1 f., p. 49: 5 f., p. 50: 1 f., p. 51: 2 f. (mf)

Palystes spenceri Pocock, 1896a: 58, pl. 8, f. 3 (Dmf)

Palystes pulchripes Pocock, 1896a: 60, pl. 8, f. 4 (Df)

Palystes natalius Pocock, 1898c: 222 (T from Olios, S of Palystes spenceri)

Palystes modificus Strand, 1906c: 37 (Dm)

Palystes modificus minor Strand, 1906c: 41 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051723]

Palystes superciliosus fasciiventris Strand, 1907a: 541 (Df)

Palystes superciliosus Strand, 1907n: 674 (S of Palystes pulchripes)

Palystes superciliosus fasciiventris Strand, 1907n: 676 (Dmf)

Palystes natalius Järvi, 1912: 68, f. 57, pl. 6, f. 13-15 (f)

Palystes natalius Järvi, 1914: 188

Palystes natalius Lawrence, 1937: 251 (m)

References

Croeser, P. M. C. (1996). A revision of the African huntsman spider genus Palystes L. Koch 1875 (Araneae: Heteropodidae). Annals of the Natal Museum 37: 1-122. -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2022b). The Sparassidae of South Africa. Version 2. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 71 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6614498 -- Show included taxa

Järvi, T. H. (1912). Das Vaginalsystem der Sparassiden. I. Allgemeiner Teil. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae (A) 4: 1-131, pl. 1-11. -- Show included taxa

Järvi, T. H. (1914). Das Vaginalsystem der Sparassiden. II. Spezieller Teil. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae (A) 4: 118-235. -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1878c). Exotisch-araneologisches. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 51: 322-333, 771-826. -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1875a). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 12-16]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 577-740, pl. 44-65. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.121660 -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R. F. (1937). A collection of Arachnida from Zululand. Annals of the Natal Museum 8: 211-273, pl. 13. -- Show included taxa

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Gloor, D., Jäger, P. & Kropf, C. (2020). How to deal with destroyed type material? The case of Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 22-29. doi: 10.30963/aramit5904 -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1896a). Descriptions of some new South African spiders of the family Heteropodidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 17(97): 55-64, pl. 8. doi: 10.1080/00222939608680323 -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1898c). The Arachnida from the province of Natal, South Africa, contained in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 2(9): 197-226, pl. 8. doi: 10.1080/00222939808678036 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1880a). Révision de la famille des Sparassidae (Arachnides). Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 34(2/3/4): 223-351. [[issue 3 and 4 were published in 1881, but a complete seperate extract was available in 1880, see the last page of the pdf]] -- 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

Strand, E. (1907a). Vorläufige Diagnosen afrikanischer und südamerikanischer Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 31: 525-558. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907n). Afrikanische Spinnen (exkl. Aviculariiden) hauptsächlich aus dem Kapland. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 25: 557-731. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2022-06-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022b
2020-03-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Nentwig et al., 2020
2020-03-09	Species synonymy	Nentwig et al., 2020	Palystes modificus minor synonymized with Palystes superciliosus