World Spider Catalog

Genus: Trachelas L. Koch, 1872 | Family: Trachelidae Simon, 1897

Trachelas falsus Haddad & Lyle, 2025

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065742

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Described:

Distribution: Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (216452) - (Haddad & Lyle, 2025)
Allotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium f (216359) - (Haddad & Lyle, 2025)
Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium 2m 3f (166259, 166407, 216482) - (Haddad & Lyle, 2025)
Paratype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 1f - (Haddad & Lyle, 2025)
Paratype: Ditsong National Museum of Natural History (formerly Transvaal Museum) (TMSA), Pretoria, South Africa 1m 1f (23990) - (Haddad & Lyle, 2025)

Taxonomic References

Trachelas falsus Haddad & Lyle, 2025: 468, f. 6G-H, 11A-D (Dmf) Original description

References

Haddad, C. R. & Lyle, R. (2025). A revision of the genus Trachelas L. Koch, 1872 (Araneae: Trachelidae) in the continental Afrotropical Region. Zootaxa 5673(4): 451-493. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5673.4.1 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-08-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Haddad & Lyle, 2025
2025-08-07	New species inserted	Haddad & Lyle, 2025