World Spider Catalog

Genus: Eresus Walckenaer, 1805 | Family: Eresidae C. L. Koch, 1845

Eresus rubrocephalus Gál, Kovács, Vincze, Keve, Páll-Gergely, Bagyó, Fehér, Bali & Kaszab, 2025

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066005

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Described:

Distribution: Morocco

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM), Budapest, Hungary m (Araneae-13777) - (Gál et al., 2025)
Paratype: 1m (002-2025, Araneae) - (Gál et al., 2025)

Taxonomic References

Eresus rubrocephalus Gál et al., 2025: 5, f. 1P, 2A-C, 3, 4E, 5A-E, 6 (Dm) Original description

References

Gál, J., Kovács, G., Vincze, Z., Keve, G., Páll-Gergely, B., Bagyó, R., Fehér, E., Bali, K. & Kaszab, E. (2025). The red-colored oddball – a new ladybird spider with unusual coloring from Morocco, Eresus rubrocephalus sp. nov. (Araneae: Eresidae). Animals 15(2707): 1-15. doi: 10.3390/ani15182707 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-09-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Gál et al., 2025
2025-09-17	New species inserted	Gál et al., 2025

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