Family: Eresidae C. L. Koch, 1845 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0096] Detail
In synonymy:
Magunia Lehtinen, 1967 = Stegodyphus Simon, 1873 (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 167, 220)
Gen. Stegodyphus Simon, 1873 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03335] Detail
type Eresus lineatus Latreille, 1817; gender masculine
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Magunia Lehtinen, 1967: 246 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04786] (type Stegodyphus tentoriicola Purcell, 1904) by Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 167.
Transferred to other genera:
Stegodyphus annulipes (Lucas, 1857) -- see Loureedia
In synonymy:
Stegodyphus affinis Tullgren, 1910 = Stegodyphus lineifrons Pocock, 1898 (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 192).
Stegodyphus arenarius (Kroneberg, 1875, T from Eresus) = Stegodyphus lineatus (Latreille, 1817) (Nenilin & Pestova, 1986: 1734).
Stegodyphus assomptioni Berland & Millot, 1940 = Stegodyphus manicatus Simon, 1876 (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 218, m only, f = S. dufouri).
Stegodyphus canus Purcell, 1904 = Stegodyphus bicolor (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 214).
Stegodyphus corallipes Simon, 1906 = Stegodyphus mimosarum Pavesi, 1883 (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 195).
Stegodyphus daliensis (Yang & Hu, 2002, T from Eresus) = Stegodyphus tibialis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) (Yang, Zhu & Zhang, 2008: 72).
Stegodyphus deserticola Purcell, 1908 = Stegodyphus dumicola Pocock, 1898 (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 237).
Stegodyphus filimaculatus Lawrence, 1927 = Stegodyphus bicolor (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 214).
Stegodyphus gregarius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889 = Stegodyphus mimosarum Pavesi, 1883 (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 195).
Stegodyphus lineatus deserticola Simon, 1908 = Stegodyphus lineatus (Latreille, 1817) (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 232).
Stegodyphus luctuosus Simon, 1906 = Stegodyphus africanus (Blackwall, 1866) (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 180).
Stegodyphus niloticus Simon, 1908 = Stegodyphus dufouri (Audouin, 1826) (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 208).
Stegodyphus quadriculatus Franganillo, 1926 = Stegodyphus lineatus (Latreille, 1817) (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 232).
Stegodyphus semadohensis Deshmukh, 2013 = Stegodyphus pacificus Pocock, 1900 (El-Hennawy, 2016c: 37).
Stegodyphus simoni Giltay, 1927 = Stegodyphus mimosarum Pavesi, 1883 (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 195).
Stegodyphus socialis Pocock, 1900 = Stegodyphus tibialis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) (Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 226).
Nomina dubia:
Stegodyphus bettoni Pocock, 1898g: 517 (j, Kenya) -- Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 186.
Stegodyphus duodimidiavittatus Strand, 1906b: 667, 1908m: 70, pl. 2, f. 5a (mf, Ethiopia) -- Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 198.
Stegodyphus tibifer Strand, 1906b: 687, 1907p: 65 (m, Tanzania) -- Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 180.
Stegodyphus africanus (Blackwall, 1866) | m f | Cameroon, DR Congo, Angola, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Eswatini, South Africa     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005879]
Eresus africanus Blackwall, 1866: 453 (Df).
Stegodyphus luctuosus Simon, 1906b: 306 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053981].
Stegodyphus africanus Strand, 1908m: 69.
Stegodyphus africanus Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 180, f. 13, 32-33, 40, 46-47, 52-53, 77-84, 260, 265 (mf, S of Stegodyphus luctuosus).
Stegodyphus africanus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022a: 38, 7 f. (mf).
Stegodyphus bicolor (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) | m f | Namibia, South Africa     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005881]
Eresus bicolor O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869c: 70, pl. 6, f. 66-69 (Dm).
Stegodyphus canus Purcell, 1904: 134, pl. 10, f. 5 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053977].
Stegodyphus filimaculatus Lawrence, 1927: 4, pl. 3, f. 56 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053979].
Stegodyphus bicolor Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 214, f. 106-107, 113, 118, 174-187 (mf, T from Eresus, S of Stegodyphus canus and S. filimaculatus).
Stegodyphus bicolor Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022a: 39, 7 f. (mf).
Stegodyphus dufouri (Audouin, 1826) | m f | North, West Africa     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005882]
Eresus dufourii Audouin, 1826: 376, pl. 4, f. 12 (Df).
Eresus molitor C. L. Koch, 1846: 7, f. 1082 (Df).
Eresus semicinctus C. L. Koch, 1846: 12, f. 1086 (Dm).
Stegodyphus dufouri Simon, 1885i: 19.
Stegodyphus semicinctus Strand, 1906h: 37.
Stegodyphus niloticus Simon, 1908b: 80 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053982].
Stegodyphus molitor Strand, 1908m: 69.
Stegodyphus dufouri Simon, 1911b: 287, f. 4A (m).
Stegodyphus manicatus Simon, 1911b: 288, f. 4C (m only, misidentified).
Stegodyphus assomptioni Berland & Millot, 1940: 159, f. 12A-B (f, misidentified per Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 218).
Stegodyphus dufouri Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 208, f. 104-105, 111-112, 126-131, 142-173 (mf, S of Stegodyphus niloticus).
Stegodyphus dufouri Kraus & Kraus, 1990: 226, f. 3-5 (f).
Stegodyphus dufouri El-Hennawy, 2009b: 130, f. 1-2, 8, 10 (mf).
Stegodyphus dumicola Pocock, 1898 | m f | Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, South Africa     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005883]
Stegodyphus dumicola Pocock, 1898c: 201, pl. 8, f. 7 (Dmf).
Stegodyphus deserticola Purcell, 1908: 217, pl. 11, f. 5 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053978].
Stegodyphus dumicola Lawrence, 1927: 4, pl. 1, f. 1 (f).
Magunia dumicola Lehtinen, 1967: 246, f. 456 (m, T from Stegodyphus).
Stegodyphus dumicola Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 237, f. 31, 195-198, 211, 246-248, 251-253, 256-259, 263 (mf, S of Stegodyphus deserticola, rejecting Lehtinen, 1967: 246, who considered S. deserticola S of Magunia/Stegodyphus tentoriicola).
Magunia dumicola Coddington, 1990: 10, f. 19 (m).
Stegodyphus dumicola Griswold et al., 2005: 24, f. 170D (m).
Stegodyphus dumicola Schendel et al., 2018: 241, f. 3Q-T (f).
Stegodyphus dumicola Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022a: 40, 8 f. (mf).
Stegodyphus hildebrandti (Karsch, 1878) | m f | Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania (Zanzibar), DR Congo     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005884]
Eresus hildebrandti Karsch, 1878b: 319, pl. 8, f. 7 (Df).
Stegodyphus hildebrandti Pavesi, 1897b: 180.
Stegodyphus africanus Lehtinen, 1967: 265 (S of Stegodyphus hildebrandti; rejected by Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 186).
Stegodyphus hildebrandti Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 186, f. 20, 34, 41, 54-55, 85-88 (f, Dm; m of Tullgren, 1910 = S. mimosarum).
Stegodyphus hisarensis Arora & Monga, 1992 | f | India     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005885]
Stegodyphus hisarensis Arora & Monga, 1992: 139, f. 1-3 (Df; N.B.: misplaced in this genus, per Siliwal, Molur & Biswas, 2005: 2006).
Stegodyphus hisarensis El-Hennawy, 2016c: 37 (the species belongs neither to Stegodyphus nor to Eresidae; probably to Philodromidae or Thomisidae).
Stegodyphus lineatus (Latreille, 1817) * | m f | Southern Europe, North Africa to Tajikistan     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005886]
Eresus lineatus Latreille, 1817: vol. 10, p. 393 (Df).
Eresus acanthophilus Dufour, 1820d: 302, pl. 95, f. 3-4 (Dmf).
Eresus acanthophilus Walckenaer, 1837: 399, pl. 11, f. 1 (mf).
Eresus unifasciatus C. L. Koch, 1846: 5, f. 1081 (Df).
Eresus adspersus C. L. Koch, 1846: 8, f. 1083 (Df; N.B.: fuscifrons in legend).
Eresus fuscifrons C. L. Koch, 1846: 9, f. 1084 (Df; N.B.: adspersus in legend).
Eresus lituratus C. L. Koch, 1846: 11, f. 1085 (Df).
Stegodyphus adspersus Simon, 1873d: 337.
Stegodyphus molitor Simon, 1873d: 338.
Eresus arenarius Kroneberg, 1875: 44, pl. 5, f. 32 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053975].
Stegodyphus lineatus Pavesi, 1876a: 443.
Stegodyphus lineatus Simon, 1892a: 253, f. 208.
Stegodyphus lineatus deserticola Simon, 1908b: 79 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053980].
Stegodyphus lineatus Simon, 1911b: 286, f. 4A (m).
Stegodyphus lineatus deserticola Simon, 1911b: 287 (Df).
Stegodyphus quadriculatus Franganillo, 1925: 38 (nomen nudum).
Stegodyphus quadriculatus Franganillo, 1926b: 75 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053983].
Stegodyphus lineatus Bacelar, 1929: 252, f. 6-7 (mf).
Stegodyphus lineatus Nenilin & Pestova, 1986: 1734, f. 5-6, 8 (mf, S of Eresus arenarius).
Stegodyphus lineatus Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 231, f. 1-2, 28, 202-205, 227-228, 234-242 (mf, S of Stegodyphus lineatus deserticola and S. quadriculatus).
Stegodyphus lineatus Ergashev, 1990: 44, f. 17-23 (mf).
Stegodyphus lineatus Melic, 1995b: 11, f. 11-16 (mf).
Stegodyphus lineatus El-Hennawy, 2009b: 130, f. 3-4, 9, 11 (mf).
Stegodyphus lineatus Le Peru, 2011: 321, f. 562 (mf).
Stegodyphus lineatus Miller et al., 2012: 106, f. 3A-C, 4K, 11A-D, 15D-F, 18G, J, 79A-J, 80A-F, 81A-F, 82A-F, 83A-F (mf).
Stegodyphus lineatus Schendel et al., 2018: 241, f. 1A-F, 2A-H (f).
Stegodyphus lineatus Breitling, 2020: 343, f. 10B-D (mf).
Stegodyphus lineatus Seyyar & Demir, 2021b: 78, f. 2A-C (f).
Stegodyphus lineatus Najim & Abbas, 2022: 382, f. 2A-D (f).
Stegodyphus lineatus Seropian et al., 2023: 238, f. 12-13 (m).
Stegodyphus lineifrons Pocock, 1898 | f | Kenya, Tanzania     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005887]
Stegodyphus lineifrons Pocock, 1898g: 516, pl. 42, f. 13 (Df).
Stegodyphus affinis Tullgren, 1910: 97 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050710].
Stegodyphus lineifrons Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 192, f. 89-90 (removed f from S of S. africanus, S of Stegodyphus affinis).
Stegodyphus manaus O. Kraus & M. Kraus, 1992 | m f | Brazil     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005888]
Stegodyphus manaus Kraus & Kraus, 1992: 16, f. 1-8 (Dmf).
Stegodyphus manicatus Simon, 1876 | m f | North, West Africa     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005889]
Stegodyphus manicatus Simon, 1876d: 87 (Df).
Stegodyphus manicatus Simon, 1908b: 79 (Dm).
Stegodyphus manicatus Simon, 1911b: 288, f. 4C (f only, m = S. dufouri).
Stegodyphus manicatus Berland & Millot, 1940: 158, f. 10 (mf).
Stegodyphus assomptioni Berland & Millot, 1940: 159, f. 11A-D (m only, f = S. dufouri per Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 218) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053976].
Stegodyphus manicatus Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 218, f. 108, 114-115, 188-194 (mf, Sm of Stegodyphus assomptioni).
Stegodyphus manicatus El-Hennawy, 2009b: 131, f. 5-6, 12-22 (mf).
Stegodyphus mimosarum Pavesi, 1883 | m f | Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005890]
Stegodyphus mimosarum Pavesi, 1883: 81 (Dmf).
Stegodyphus gregarius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889a: 42, pl. 2, f. 4-5 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053853].
Stegodyphus corallipes Simon, 1906b: 305 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050132].
Stegodyphus mimosarum Simon, 1909c: 30.
Stegodyphus hildebrandti Tullgren, 1910: 95, pl. 1, f. 5 (m; misidentified per Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 195).
Stegodyphus mimosarum Strand, 1913a: 329.
Stegodyphus simoni Giltay, 1927: 105, f. 1-6 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050131].
Stegodyphus mimosarum Lehtinen, 1967: 461, f. 454 (m).
Stegodyphus mimosarum Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 195, f. 3-4, 8-12, 14-19, 37-39, 43-45, 49-51, 58-76, 96-99, 261, 266 (mf, S of Stegodyphus corallipes, S. gregarius and of S. simoni).
Stegodyphus mimosarum Kraus & Kraus, 1990: 226, f. 6-8 (m).
Stegodyphus mimosarum Miller et al., 2012: 113, f. 3E-F, 4L, 11E-H, 15G-I, 18H, K, 84A-J, 85A-F, 86A-D, 87A-F, 88A-F (mf).
Stegodyphus mimosarum Schendel et al., 2018: 241, f. 3A-D (f).
Stegodyphus mimosarum Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022a: 42, 8 f. (mf).
Stegodyphus mirandus Pocock, 1899 | m f | Pakistan, India     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005891]
Stegodyphus mirandus Pocock, 1899d: 750 (Dmf).
Stegodyphus mirandus Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 224, f. 207, 212-217 (mf).
Stegodyphus nathistmus O. Kraus & M. Kraus, 1989 | m f | Morocco to Yemen     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005892]
Stegodyphus nathistmus Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 228, f. 29-30, 200-201, 224-226, 229-233 (Dmf).
Stegodyphus pacificus Pocock, 1900 | m f | Jordan, Iran, Pakistan, India     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005893]
Stegodyphus pacificus Pocock, 1900a: 209 (Dmf).
Stegodyphus pacificus Dyal, 1935: 131, pl. 11, f. 2.
Stegodyphus pacificus Lehtinen, 1967: 461, f. 455 (m).
Stegodyphus pacificus Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 202, f. 102, 109, 116, 119, 121-124, 132-138 (mf).
Stegodyphus semadohensis Deshmukh, 2013: 109, 1a-d (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:046970].
Stegodyphus pacificus El-Hennawy, 2016c: 37 (S of Stegodyphus semadohensis).
Stegodyphus pacificus Schendel et al., 2018: 241, f. 3I-L (f).
Stegodyphus semadohensis Sherwood & El-Hennawy, 2023: 18 (nomen nudum, no type deposition).
Stegodyphus sabulosus Tullgren, 1910 | f | Kenya, Tanzania, Eswatini, South Africa     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005894]
Stegodyphus sabulosus Tullgren, 1910: 97, pl. 1, f. 6 (Df).
Stegodyphus sabulosus Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 190, f. 36, 91-95 (f).
Stegodyphus sabulosus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022a: 43, 4 f. (f).
Stegodyphus sarasinorum Karsch, 1892 | m f | Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005895]
Stegodyphus sarasinorum Karsch, 1892: 275, pl. 10, f. 4 (Df).
Stegodyphus sarasinorum Pocock, 1900a: 209, f. 65 (f).
Stegodyphus sarasinorum Bradoo, 1975: 239, f. 9, 11 (mf).
Stegodyphus sarasinorum Tikader & Biswas, 1981: 15, f. 5-7 (f).
Stegodyphus sarasinorum Wunderlich, 1986: 208, f. 199.
Stegodyphus sarasinorum Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 204, f. 21-27, 103, 110, 117, 120, 125, 139-141 (mf).
Stegodyphus sarasinorum Gajbe, 2007: 428, f. 16-19 (mf).
Stegodyphus sarasinorum Miller et al., 2012: 116, f. 11I-L, 15J-L, 18I, L, 89A-J, 90A-F, 91A-F, 92A-F, 93A-F, 94A-F, 95A-F (mf).
Stegodyphus sarasinorum Schendel et al., 2018: 241, f. 3E-H (f).
Stegodyphus simplicifrons Simon, 1906 | f | Madagascar     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005896]
Stegodyphus simplicifrons Simon, 1906b: 306 (Df).
Stegodyphus gregarius simplicifrons Strand, 1907o: 8 (downgraded to "var." of S. gregarius).
Stegodyphus gregarius simplicifrons Strand, 1908f: 457, f. C (f).
Stegodyphus simplicifrons Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 194, f. 100-101 (f, resurrected species level, as "doubtful species"; taken here as species inquirenda).
Stegodyphus tentoriicola Purcell, 1904 | m f | Namibia, Botswana, South Africa     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005897]
Stegodyphus tentoriicola Purcell, 1904: 135, pl. 10, f. 6 (Dmf).
Magunia tentoriicola Lehtinen, 1967: 246, f. 460 (f, T from Stegodyphus, S of S. deserticola; rejected by Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 237, who consider S. deserticola S of S. dumicola).
Stegodyphus tentoriicola Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 235, f. 206, 209-210, 243-245, 249-250, 254-255, 262 (mf).
Stegodyphus tentoriicola Schendel et al., 2018: 241, f. 3M-P (f).
Stegodyphus tentoriicola Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022a: 44, 6 f. (mf).
Stegodyphus tibialis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) | m f | India, Myanmar, Thailand, China     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005898]
Eresus tibialis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869c: 71, pl. 6, f. 70-71 (Dm).
Stegodyphus tibialis Simon, 1884n: 343.
Stegodyphus socialis Pocock, 1900a: 209 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053984].
Stegodyphus tibialis Phanuel, 1963: 305, f. 1-9 (mf).
Stegodyphus tibialis Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 226, f. 199, 208, 218-223 (mf, S of Stegodyphus socialis).
Stegodyphus tibialis Ono, 1995c: 158, f. 1-3, 22 (m).
Eresus daliensis Yang & Hu, 2002: 726, f. 1-6 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037528].
Stegodyphus tibialis Yang, Zhu & Zhang, 2008: 72, f. A-M (mf, S of Eresus daliensis; N.B.: this was already considered by Rezác, Pekár & Johannesen, 2008: 264, but without explanation).
Stegodyphus tibialis Gunti, Srinivasulu & Devender, 2016: 1, f. 1 (m).
Stegodyphus tibialis Caleb, Karthikeyani & Muthuchelian, 2016: 5, f. 2-8 (f).
Stegodyphus tibialis El-Hennawy, 2016c: 33, f. 1-10 (m).
Stegodyphus tibialis Caleb, 2020b: 15720, f. 7A-G, 25O (f).
Stegodyphus tingelin O. Kraus & M. Kraus, 1989 | m | Cameroon     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005899]
Stegodyphus tingelin Kraus & Kraus, 1989: 193, f. 7, 35, 42, 48, 56-57 (Dm).
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