Drassodella
Genus of spiders
| Drassodella | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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 | |
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]
Species
As of May 2019[update] 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
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Drassodella Hewitt, 1916". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
- ^ Hewitt, J. (1916). "Descriptions of new South African spiders". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 5 (3): 209–211.
- ^ Platnick, N. I. (1990). "Spinneret morphology and the phylogeny of ground spiders (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea)". American Museum Novitates (2978): 39.
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