World Spider Catalog

Genus: Sarascelis Simon, 1887 | Family: Palpimanidae Thorell, 1869

Sarascelis murphyorum (Zonstein & Marusik, 2022)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054376

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Described:

Distribution: Kenya

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Manchester Museum of the University of Manchester (MMUE/MMUM), Manchester, United Kingdom m (G.7572.3127) - (Zonstein & Marusik, 2022a)

Taxonomic References

Sceliraptor murphyorum Zonstein & Marusik, 2022a: 261, f. 1-12, 28-30 (Dm) Original description

Sarascelis murphyorum Wood et al., 2024: 23 (T from Sceliraptor)

References

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

Zonstein, S. L. & Marusik, Y. M. (2022a). Descriptions of Sceliraptor gen. n. and two new species from Kenya (Araneae, Palpimanidae). Arachnology 19(Special Issue): 257-264. doi: 10.13156/arac.2022.19.sp1.257 -- 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 Sceliraptor to Sarascelis
2022-06-15	New taxonomic reference entry	Zonstein & Marusik, 2022a
2022-06-15	New species inserted	Zonstein & Marusik, 2022a