Drassodella

Drassodella is a genus of African araneomorph spiders in the family Gallieniellidae, and was first described by John Hewitt in 1916.[2] Originally placed with the ground spiders, it was moved to the Gallieniellidae in 1990.[3]

Drassodella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gallieniellidae
Genus: Drassodella
Hewitt, 1916[1]
Type species
D. salisburyi
Hewitt, 1916
Species

19, see text

Species

As of May 2019 it contains nineteen species, all found in South Africa:[1]

  • Drassodella amatola Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
  • Drassodella aurostriata Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
  • Drassodella baviaans Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
  • Drassodella flava Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
  • Drassodella guttata Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
  • Drassodella lotzi Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
  • Drassodella maculata Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
  • Drassodella melana Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
  • Drassodella montana Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
  • Drassodella purcelli Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
  • Drassodella quinquelabecula Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
  • Drassodella salisburyi Hewitt, 1916 (type) – South Africa
  • Drassodella septemmaculata (Strand, 1909) – South Africa
  • Drassodella tenebrosa Lawrence, 1938 – South Africa
  • Drassodella tolkieni Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
  • Drassodella transversa Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
  • Drassodella trilineata Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
  • Drassodella vasivulva Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
  • Drassodella venda Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
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References
  1. "Gen. Drassodella Hewitt, 1916". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  2. Hewitt, J. (1916). "Descriptions of new South African spiders". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 5 (3): 209–211.
  3. Platnick, N. I. (1990). "Spinneret morphology and the phylogeny of ground spiders (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea)". American Museum Novitates. 2978: 39.


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