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Genus: Capheris Simon, 1893 | Family: Zodariidae Thorell, 1881

Capheris crassimana (Simon, 1887)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025643

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Described:

Distribution: Angola, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France j (9853) - (Jocqué, 2009a)
Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany j (29237) of Capheris haematilis - (Jocqué, 2009a)

Taxonomic References

Cydrela crassimana Simon, 1887b: 373 (Dj) Original description

Capheris crassimana Simon, 1893a: 419, f. 383-384

Capheris haematilis Simon, 1910b: 181 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025649]

Capheris crassimana Jocqué, 1991a: 117, f. 277-284 (mf, S of Capheris oncka; revalidated by Jocqué, 2009a: 136)

Capheris crassimana Jocqué, 2009a: 129, f. 114-115, 149-150, 158-160, 178 (mf, S of Capheris haematilis)

Capheris crassimana Jocqué, 2010: 57, f. 2 (f)

Capheris crassimana Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2024a: 29, f. 1-10 (mf)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Jocqué, R., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2024a). The Zodariidae of South Africa. Part 1 (A-D). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 91 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.14404920 -- Show included taxa

Jocqué, R. (1991a). A generic revision of the spider family Zodariidae (Araneae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 201: 1-160. -- Show included taxa

Jocqué, R. (2009a). Some keep it short: on the radiation in the Afrotropical spider genera Capheris and Systenoplacis (Araneae, Zodariidae) without male pedipalp complexity increase. Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 5: 77-148. -- Show included taxa

Jocqué, R. (2010). On the identity of Capheris approximata (Karsch, 1878) (Araneae, Zodariidae). Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 6: 57-58. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1887b). Etudes arachnologiques. 20e Mémoire. XXVIII. Arachnides recueillis dans le sud de l'Afrique par M. le docteur Hans Schinz. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 7: 369-384. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1893a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 257-488. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1910b). Arachnoidea: Araneae (II.). In: Schultze, L. (ed.) Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika. Vierter Band. Systematik und Tiergeographie. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 16: 175-218. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-12-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2024a
2019-05-21	Species distribution update	Haddad & Marusik, 2019	Old value