Spiroctenus

Spiroctenus is a genus of African araneomorph spiders in the family Bemmeridae. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1889.[3] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae,[3] it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985,[2], and to the Bemmeridae in 2020.[4] It is a senior synonym of Bemmeris, Bessia, and Ctenonemus.[2]

Spiroctenus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Bemmeridae
Genus:	Spiroctenus Simon, 1889[1]
Type species
S. personatus Simon, 1888
Species
30, see text
Synonyms[1]
Bemmeris Simon, 1903[2] Bessia Pocock, 1900[2] Ctenonemus Simon, 1903[2]

Species

As of June 2020 it contains thirty species, all found in southern Africa:[1]

• Spiroctenus armatus Hewitt, 1913 – South Africa
• Spiroctenus broomi Tucker, 1917 – South Africa
• Spiroctenus cambierae (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa
• Spiroctenus coeruleus Lawrence, 1952 – South Africa
• Spiroctenus collinus (Pocock, 1900) – South Africa
• Spiroctenus curvipes Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
• Spiroctenus exilis Lawrence, 1938 – South Africa
• Spiroctenus flavopunctatus (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
• Spiroctenus fossorius (Pocock, 1900) – South Africa
• Spiroctenus fuligineus (Pocock, 1902) – South Africa
• Spiroctenus gooldi (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
• Spiroctenus inermis (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa
• Spiroctenus latus Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
• Spiroctenus lightfooti (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa
• Spiroctenus lignicola Lawrence, 1937 – South Africa
• Spiroctenus londinensis Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
• Spiroctenus marleyi Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
• Spiroctenus minor (Hewitt, 1913) – South Africa
• Spiroctenus pallidipes Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
• Spiroctenus pardalina (Simon, 1903) – South Africa
• Spiroctenus pectiniger (Simon, 1903) – South Africa
• Spiroctenus personatus Simon, 1888 (type) – Southern Africa
• Spiroctenus pilosus Tucker, 1917 – South Africa
• Spiroctenus punctatus Hewitt, 1916 – South Africa
• Spiroctenus purcelli Tucker, 1917 – South Africa
• Spiroctenus sagittarius (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa
• Spiroctenus schreineri (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
• Spiroctenus spinipalpis Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
• Spiroctenus tricalcaratus (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
• Spiroctenus validus (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa

Nomen dubium

• S. lusitanus Franganillo, 1920

See also

• List of Bemmeridae species

References

1. "Gen. Spiroctenus Simon, 1889". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
2. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 92.
3. Simon, E. (1889). "Descriptions d'espèces africaines nouvelles de la famille des Aviculariidae". Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux. 42: 405–415.
4. Opatova, V.; et al. (2020). "Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data". Systematic Biology. 69 (4): 701. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz064.

Further reading

• Tucker, R. W. E. (1917). "On some South African Aviculariidae (Arachnida). Families Migidae, Ctenizidae, Diplotheleae and Dipluridae". Annals of the South African Museum. 17: 79–138.
• Simon, E (1903). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
• Purcell, W. F. (1902). "New South African trap-door spiders of the family Ctenizidae in the collection of the South African Museum". Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 11: 348–382.
• Hewitt, J. (1919). "Descriptions of new South African Araneae and Solifugae". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 6: 63–111.