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}}

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:Mygalomorphae genera

Category:Spiders of Africa

Category:Stasimopidae

Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon

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