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Genus: Araneus Clerck, 1757 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Araneus strupifer Simon, 1886

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Described:

Distribution: Senegal, Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, South Africa

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Type Repository Provide information

It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -
Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material destroyed 1944 j of Aranea webensis Strand, 1908 -

Taxonomic References

Epeira strupifera Simon, 1886g: 368 (Df) Original description

Araneus eresifrons Pocock, 1898g: 509, pl. 41, f. 3 (Df)

Aranea webensis Strand, 1908g: 395 (provisional name only)

Aranea strupifer Tullgren, 1910: 163, pl. 4, f. 108 (f)

Araneus strupifer Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022d: 23, 5 unnumbered f. (f)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H., Lotz, L. N. & Webb, P. (2022d). The Araneidae of South Africa. Version 2: part 1 (A-C). South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 74 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6326922 -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1898g). On the scorpions, spiders and solpugas collected by Mr. C. Steuart Betton in British East Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 66(3): 497-524, pl. 41-42. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1898.tb03172.x -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1886g). Etudes arachnologiques. 18e Mémoire. XXVI. Matériaux pour servir à la faune des Arachnides du Sénégal. (Suivi d'une appendice intitulé: Descriptions de plusieurs espèces africaines nouvelles). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 5: 345-396. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1908g). Nordafrikanische, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelte Argiopiden. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 16: 329-440. -- Show included taxa

Tullgren, A. (1910). Araneae. In: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. Sjöstedts Kilimandjaro-Meru Expedition 20(6): 85-172, pl. 1-4. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.6622 -- Show included taxa

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2022-06-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022d
2022-06-07	Species distribution update	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022d	Old value