Stasimopus

Stasimopus is a genus of African mygalomorph spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1892.[2] It is the only genus in the family Stasimopidae.[1][3]

African cork-lid trapdoor spiders
Female Stasimopus rufidens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Stasimopidae Opatova & Hedin, 2020
Genus:	Stasimopus Simon, 1892[1]
Type species
S. caffrus (C. L. Koch, 1842)
Species
45, see text

Species

As of June 2020 it contains forty-five species and two subspecies, found in southern Africa:[1]

• 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 erythrognathus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
• Stasimopus filmeri Engelbrecht & Prendini, 2012 – South Africa
• Stasimopus fordi Hewitt, 1927 – South Africa
• Stasimopus gigas Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
• Stasimopus griswoldi Engelbrecht & Prendini, 2012 – South Africa
• Stasimopus hewitti Engelbrecht & Prendini, 2012 – South Africa
• Stasimopus insculptus Pocock, 1901 – South Africa
  • Stasimopus i. peddiensis Hewitt, 1917 – 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 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 tysoni Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
• Stasimopus umtaticus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
  • Stasimopus u. rangeri Hewitt, 1927 – South Africa
• Stasimopus unispinosus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa

In synonymy:

• S. dubius Hewitt, 1913 = Stasimopus robertsi Hewitt, 1910

References

1. "Gen. Stasimopus Simon, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 21.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
2. Simon, E (1892). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
3. Opatova, V.; et al. (2020). "Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data". Systematic Biology. 69 (4): 671–707. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz064.

Further reading

• Purcell, W. F. (1903). "New South African spiders of the families Migidae, Ctenizidae, Barychelidae Dipluridae, and Lycosidae". Annals of the South African Museum. 3: 69–142.
• Hewitt, J. (1914). "Descriptions of new Arachnida from South Africa". Records of the Albany Museum Grahamstown. 3: 1–37.
• Hewitt, J. (1913). "Descriptions of new and little known species of trapdoor spiders (Ctenizidae and Migidae) from South Africa". Records of the Albany Museum Grahamstown. 2: 404–434.
• Engelbrecht, I.; Prendini, L. (2012). "Cryptic diversity of South African trapdoor spiders: three new species of Stasimopus Simon, 1892 (Mygalomorphae, Ctenizidae), and redescription of Stasimopus robertsi Hewitt, 1910". American Museum Novitates. 3732: 1–42.
• Hewitt, J. (1927). "On some new arachnids from South Africa". Records of the Albany Museum Grahamstown. 3: 416–429.