Stegodyphus

Taxobox
name = "Stegodyphus"

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image_caption = "Stegodyphus lineatus"
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Araneomorphae
familia = Eresidae
genus = "Stegodyphus"
genus_authority = Simon, 1873
diversity_link = List of Eresidae species#Stegodyphus
diversity = 21 species
type_species = "Eresus lineatus"
type_species_authority = Latreille, 1817
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subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Stegodyphus" is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Eresidae. The 21 species are distributed from Africa to Europe and Asia, with one species ("S. manaus") found in Brazil.

At least three species are social, and several species are known to use ballooning as a method of dispersal.

Name

The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek "stegos" "covered".

pecies

* "Stegodyphus africanus" (Blackwall, 1866) — Africa
* "Stegodyphus annulipes" (Lucas, 1856) — Brazil
* "Stegodyphus bicolor" (O. P.-Cambridge, 1869) — Southern Africa
* "Stegodyphus dufouri" (Audouin, 1826) — North, West Africa
* "Stegodyphus dumicola" Pocock, 1898 — Central, South Africa
* "Stegodyphus hildebrandti" (Karsch, 1878) — Central, East Africa, Zanzibar
* "Stegodyphus hisarensis" Arora & Monga, 1992 — India
* "Stegodyphus lineatus" (Latreille, 1817) — (Europe to Tajikistan
* "Stegodyphus lineifrons" Pocock, 1898 — East Africa
* "Stegodyphus manaus" Kraus & Kraus, 1992 — Brazil
* "Stegodyphus manicatus" Simon, 1876 — North, West Africa
* "Stegodyphus mimosarum" Pavesi, 1883 — Africa, Madagascar
* "Stegodyphus mirandus" Pocock, 1899 — India
* "Stegodyphus nathistmus" Kraus & Kraus, 1989 — Morocco to Aden
* "Stegodyphus pacificus" Pocock, 1900 — Jordan, Iran, Pakistan, India
* "Stegodyphus sabulosus" Tullgren, 1910 — East, Southern Africa
* "Stegodyphus sarasinorum" Karsch, 1891 — India, Sri Lanka, Nepal
* "Stegodyphus simplicifrons" Simon, 1906 — Madagascar
* "Stegodyphus tentoriicola" Purcell, 1904 — South Africa
* "Stegodyphus tibialis" (O. P.-Cambridge, 1869) — India, Myanmar, Thailand
* "Stegodyphus tingelin" Kraus & Kraus, 1989 — Cameroon

References

* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".

Further reading

* (1992): Eresid spiders in the neotropics: "Stegodyphus manaus" n.sp. (Arachnida, Araneae, Eresidae). "Verh. naturwiss. Ver. Hamburg" 33: 15-19.
* (2001): Dispersal of "Stegodyphus dumicola" (Araneae, Eresidae): They do balloon after all! "The Journal of Arachnology" 29: 114-116. [http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v29_n1/arac_29_01_0114.pdf PDF]