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Genus: Trygetus Simon, 1882 | Family: Zodariidae Thorell, 1881

Trygetus sexoculatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:026024

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Described:

Distribution: Egypt, Israel

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK f (B. 439, t. 11) - (Levy, 1992)

Taxonomic References

Palaestina sexoculata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 270 (Df) Original description

Trygetus senoculatus Simon, 1893a: 439

Trygetus sexoculatus Jocqué, 1991a: 149, f. 378-383 (f)

Trygetus sexoculatus Levy, 1992: 77, f. 27-38 (f, Dm)

Trygetus sexoculatus Shafaie, Pekár & Seyyar, 2025: 38, f. 27A-D, 28A-E (mf)

References

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

Levy, G. (1992). The spider genera Palaestina, Trygetus, Zodarion and Ranops (Araneae, Zodariidae) in Israel with annotations on species of the Middle East. Israel Journal of Zoology 38: 67-110. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 40(1): 212-354, pl. 13-16. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1872.tb00489.x -- Show included taxa

Shafaie, S., Pekár, S. & Seyyar, O. (2025). New data on zodariid spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean. European Journal of Taxonomy 1016: 1-139. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2025.1016.3063 -- 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

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-09-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Shafaie, Pekár & Seyyar, 2025
2017-11-02	Species distribution update	El-Hennawy, 2017a	Old value