Stegodyphus mimosarum

African social velvet spider
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Eresidae
Genus:	Stegodyphus
Species:	S. mimosarum
Binomial name
	Stegodyphus mimosarum; Pavesi, 1883

Stegodyphus mimosarum, the African social velvet spider, is a species of the genus Stegodyphus, one of the velvet spiders. It is a social species, which is found in South Africa and Madagascar.[1] The genome sequence was published in 2014.[2]

References

Jes Johannesen, Yael Lubin, Deborah R. Smith, Trine Bilde, Jutta M. Schneider (2007), "The age and evolution of sociality in Stegodyphus spiders: a molecular phylogenetic perspective", Proc Biol Sci, 274: 231–37, doi:10.1098/rspb.2006.3699, PMC 1685853, PMID 17148252CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
Kristian W. Sanggaard et al. (2014), "Spider genomes provide insight into composition and evolution of venom and silk", Nature Communications, 5, doi:10.1038/ncomms4765, PMC 4273655, PMID 24801114, 3765CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

External link

World Spider Catalog: Stegodyphus mimosarum Pavesi, 1883

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[1] Jes Johannesen, Yael Lubin, Deborah R. Smith, Trine Bilde, Jutta M. Schneider (2007), "The age and evolution of sociality in Stegodyphus spiders: a molecular phylogenetic perspective", Proc Biol Sci, 274: 231–37, doi:10.1098/rspb.2006.3699, PMC 1685853, PMID 17148252CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

[2] Kristian W. Sanggaard et al. (2014), "Spider genomes provide insight into composition and evolution of venom and silk", Nature Communications, 5, doi:10.1038/ncomms4765, PMC 4273655, PMID 24801114, 3765CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)