World Spider Catalog

Genus: Scelidocteus Simon, 1907 | Family: Palpimanidae Thorell, 1869

Scelidocteus marshi (Oketch & Li, 2020)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:052133

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Described:

Distribution: Kenya

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: National Museums of Kenya (NMK), Nairobi, Kenya m - (Oketch et al., 2020)
Paratype: National Museums of Kenya (NMK), Nairobi, Kenya 1f - (Oketch et al., 2020)

Taxonomic References

Sceliscelis marshi Oketch & Li in Oketch et al., 2020: 96, f. 1A-F, 2A-D (Dmf) Original description

Scelidocteus marshi Wood et al., 2024: 23 (T from Sceliscelis)

References

Oketch, A. D., Zonstein, S. L., Kioko, E. N. & Li, S. Q. (2020). Description of a new genus and three new species of the family Palpimanidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from Kenya. African Invertebrates 61(2): 93-106. doi: 10.3897/AfrInvertebr.61.54004 -- Show included taxa

Wood, H. M., Kulkarni, S., Ramírez, M. J. & Scharff, N. (2024). Phylogeny and biogeography support ancient vicariance and subsequent dispersal out of Africa in Palpimanidae spiders (Araneae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 202(2, zlae129): 1-26. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae129 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2024-11-08	New taxonomic reference entry	Wood et al., 2024
2024-11-08	Species transferred to new genus	Wood et al., 2024	Species transferred from Sceliscelis to Scelidocteus
2020-07-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Oketch et al., 2020
2020-07-28	New species inserted	Oketch et al., 2020