Stasimopus
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = African cork-lid trapdoor spiders
| image = PZSL1889Plate02, Stasimopus rufidens.png
| image_caption = Female Stasimopus rufidens
| taxon = Stasimopus
| display_parents = 2
| parent_authority = Opatova & Hedin, 2020
| authority = Simon, 1892
| type_species = S. caffrus
| type_species_authority = (C. L. Koch, 1842)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 56, see text
}}
Stasimopus is a genus of African mygalomorph spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1892.{{cite book| last=Simon| first=E| year=1892| title=Histoire naturelle des araignées| publisher=Roret | publication-place=Paris| language=fr| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/51973| author-link=Eugène Simon}} It is the only genus in the family Stasimopidae.{{cite journal| last=Opatova| first=V.| display-authors=etal| year=2020| title=Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data| journal=Systematic Biology| volume=69| issue=4| pages=671–707| doi=10.1093/sysbio/syz064| pmid=31841157| doi-access=free}}
Species
{{as of|2024|11}} it contains fifty-six species and two subspecies, found in southern Africa:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Stasimopus Simon, 1892| website=World Spider Catalog Version 21.0| accessdate=2020-07-11| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/655| doi=10.24436/2}}
- Stasimopus artifex Pocock, 1902 – South Africa
- Stasimopus astutus Pocock, 1902 – South Africa
- Stasimopus bimaculatus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
- Stasimopus brevipalpis Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
- Stasimopus caffrus (C. L. Koch, 1842) (type) – South Africa
- Stasimopus castaneus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
- Stasimopus coronatus Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
- Stasimopus dreyeri Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
- Stasimopus dylani Brandt, Sole & Lyle, 2023 – South Africa
- Stasimopus erythrognathus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
- Stasimopus filmeri Engelbrecht & Prendini, 2012 – South Africa
- Stasimopus finni Brandt, Sole & Lyle, 2023 – South Africa
- Stasimopus fordi Hewitt, 1927 – South Africa
- Stasimopus gigas Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
- Stasimopus griswoldi Engelbrecht & Prendini, 2012 – South Africa
- Stasimopus hamartia Brandt, Sole & Lyle, 2023 – South Africa
- Stasimopus hewitti Engelbrecht & Prendini, 2012 – South Africa
- Stasimopus ignis Brandt, Sole & Lyle, 2023 – South Africa
- Stasimopus insculptus Pocock, 1901 – South Africa
- Stasimopus i. peddiensis Hewitt, 1917 – South Africa
- Stasimopus karooensis Brandt, Sole & Lyle, 2023 – South Africa
- Stasimopus kentanicus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
- Stasimopus kolbei Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
- Stasimopus leipoldti Purcell, 1902 – South Africa
- Stasimopus longipalpis Hewitt, 1917 – South Africa
- Stasimopus malesociatus Brandt, Sole & Lyle, 2023 – South Africa
- Stasimopus mandelai Hendrixson & Bond, 2004 – South Africa
- Stasimopus maraisi Hewitt, 1914 – South Africa
- Stasimopus meyeri (Karsch, 1879) – Southeast Africa
- Stasimopus minor Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
- Stasimopus nanus Tucker, 1917 – South Africa
- Stasimopus nigellus Pocock, 1902 – South Africa
- Stasimopus obscurus Purcell, 1908 – South Africa
- Stasimopus oculatus Pocock, 1897 – South Africa
- Stasimopus palpiger Pocock, 1902 – South Africa
- Stasimopus patersonae Hewitt, 1913 – South Africa
- Stasimopus poweri Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
- Stasimopus purcelli Tucker, 1917 – South Africa
- Stasimopus quadratimaculatus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
- Stasimopus qumbu Hewitt, 1913 – South Africa
- Stasimopus robertsi Hewitt, 1910 – South Africa
- Stasimopus rufidens (Ausserer, 1871) – South Africa
- Stasimopus schoenlandi Pocock, 1900 – South Africa
- Stasimopus schreineri Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
- Stasimopus schultzei Purcell, 1908 – South Africa
- Stasimopus spinipes Hewitt, 1917 – South Africa
- Stasimopus spinosus Hewitt, 1914 – South Africa
- Stasimopus steynsburgensis Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
- Stasimopus suffuscus Hewitt, 1916 – South Africa
- Stasimopus teras Brandt, Sole & Lyle, 2023 – South Africa
- Stasimopus theaei Brandt, Sole & Lyle, 2023 – South Africa
- Stasimopus tysoni Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
- Stasimopus umtaticus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
- Stasimopus u. rangeri Hewitt, 1927 – South Africa
- Stasimopus unispinosus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
- Stasimopus venterstadensis Brandt, Sole & Lyle, 2023 – South Africa
In synonymy:
- S. dubius Hewitt, 1913 = Stasimopus robertsi Hewitt, 1910
References
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Further reading
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- {{cite journal| last=Purcell| first=W. F.| year=1903| title=New South African spiders of the families Migidae, Ctenizidae, Barychelidae Dipluridae, and Lycosidae| journal=Annals of the South African Museum| pages=69–142| volume=3}}
- {{cite journal| last=Hewitt| first=J.| year=1914| title=Descriptions of new Arachnida from South Africa| journal=Records of the Albany Museum Grahamstown| pages=1–37| volume=3}}
- {{cite journal| last=Hewitt| first=J.| year=1913| title=Descriptions of new and little known species of trapdoor spiders (Ctenizidae and Migidae) from South Africa| journal=Records of the Albany Museum Grahamstown| pages=404–434| volume=2}}
- {{cite journal| last1=Engelbrecht| first1=I.| last2=Prendini| first2=L.| year=2012| title=Cryptic diversity of South African trapdoor spiders: three new species of Stasimopus Simon, 1892 (Mygalomorphae, Ctenizidae), and redescription of Stasimopus robertsi Hewitt, 1910| journal=American Museum Novitates| pages=1–42| issue=3732| doi=10.1206/3732.2| s2cid=86829293| url=https://zenodo.org/record/5360064}}
- {{cite journal| last=Hewitt| first=J.| year=1927| title=On some new arachnids from South Africa| journal=Records of the Albany Museum Grahamstown| pages=416–429| volume=3}}
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Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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