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Genus: Psammoduon Jocqué, 1991 | Family: Zodariidae Thorell, 1881

Psammoduon deserticola (Simon, 1910)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025898

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Described:

Distribution: Namibia, South Africa

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f (13465) - (Jocqué, 1991b)
Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) ff jj (29582-85) [can be paratypes, no syntypes] -
Paratype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany 1f (29585) - (Jocqué, 1991b)
Paratype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 1f (15226) of Caesetius deserticola lüderitzi - (Jocqué, 1991b)
Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany f (29239) of Caesetius deserticola lüderitzi - (Jocqué, 1991b)

Taxonomic References

Caesetius deserticola Simon, 1910b: 183 (Df) Original description

Caesetius deserticola lüderitzi Simon, 1910b: 184 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062447]

Caesetius masculinus Lawrence, 1938b: 218, f. 4 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062448]

Caesetius deserticola Lawrence, 1962: 201, f. 1g (f)

Caesetius deserticola Lawrence, 1965: 10, f. 4c-d (Dm)

Psammoduon deserticola Jocqué, 1991a: 124, f. 15, 34, 252, 296-301 (mf, T from Caesetius)

Psammoduon deserticola Jocqué, 1991b: 88, f. 24-30, 32-40 (mf, S of Caesetius deserticola luederitzi and C. masculinus)

Psammoduon deserticola Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2024b: 29, f. 1-7 (mf)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Jocqué, R., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2024b). The Zodariidae of South Africa. Part 2 (H-T). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 49 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.14568995 -- 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. (1991b). A revision of the spider genera Caesetius and Psammoduon (Araneae, Zodariidae). Cimbebasia 12: 75-98. -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R. F. (1938b). Transvaal Museum Expedition to South-West Africa and Little Namaqualand, May to August 1937. Spiders. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 19: 215-226. -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R. F. (1962). Spiders of the Namib desert. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 24: 197-211. -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R. F. (1965). New and little known Arachnida from the Namib desert, S.W. Africa. Scientific Papers of the Namib Desert Research Station 27: 1-12. -- 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
2024-12-31	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2024b
2024-12-31	Species distribution update	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2024b	Old value
2019-05-21	Species distribution update	Haddad & Marusik, 2019	Old value