Descriptions of New Genera and Species of South African Spiders

Purcell, William F.

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“…39); metatarsi and tarsi entire, lacking pseudosegmentation or ventral laminate keel on anterior metatarsi and/or tarsi; metatarsi and tarsi I and II of males with several thicker ventral setae with enlarged bases, resembling cuspules, sometimes on a slight mound, absent in females; tarsal organ oval, with five conspicuous radiating ridges (Fig. 40) -4, 14, 19, 26, 27, 48-50 Diploglena capensis Purcell, 1904: Platnick & Jäger 2008.…”

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“…61b;Jocqué & DippenaarSchoeman 2006: 88, fig. 21d;Platnick & Jäger 2008: 7. Type species: Diploglena capensis Purcell, 1904, by monotypy.…”

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“…Family Caponiidae Simon, 1890 Genus Diploglena Purcell, 1904Diploglena Purcell, 1904Dippenaar-Schoeman & Jocqué 1997: 118, fig. 61b;Jocqué & DippenaarSchoeman 2006: 88, fig.…”

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“…The family is richest in South and Central America, while the Old World fauna is represented by only four genera, all placed in Caponiinae sensu lato (i.e. non-nopines): the type genus Caponia Simon, 1887 (11 species) and the genus Diploglena Purcell, 1904, represented by a single species and subspecies, from the Afrotropical Region; the recently described monotypic Laoponia Platnick & Jäger, 2008, endemic to Laos and Vietnam;and Iraponia KranzBaltensperger, Platnick & Dupérré, 2009, endemic to Iran. Caponiids are quite unusual among spiders by the considerable reduction in the number of eyes in several genera. In the subfamily Nopinae, particularly, all of the genera have the number of eyes reduced to either four or two (e.g.…”

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“…In the present contribution the genus Diploglena is revised, the type species (D. capensis Purcell, 1904) is redescribed, the subspecies D. capensis major Lawrence, 1928 is elevated to species level as D. major stat. n., and four new species are described from southern Africa (D. arida sp.…”

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On the First Asian Spiders of the Family Caponiidae (Araneae, Haplogynae), with Notes on the African Genus Diploglena

Platnick¹,

Jäger²

2008

American Museum Novitates

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confidence: 99%

“…61b;Jocqué & DippenaarSchoeman 2006: 88, fig. 21d;Platnick & Jäger 2008: 7. Type species: Diploglena capensis Purcell, 1904, by monotypy.…”

Section: Taxonomymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Family Caponiidae Simon, 1890 Genus Diploglena Purcell, 1904Diploglena Purcell, 1904Dippenaar-Schoeman & Jocqué 1997: 118, fig. 61b;Jocqué & DippenaarSchoeman 2006: 88, fig.…”

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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On the First Asian Spiders of the Family Caponiidae (Araneae, Haplogynae), with Notes on the African Genus Diploglena

Platnick¹,

Jäger²

2008

American Museum Novitates

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How soil granulometry, temperature, and water predict genetic differentiation in Namibian spiders (Ariadna: Segestriidae) and explain their behavior

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Mulder

Pappalardo

et al. 2019

Ecology and Evolution

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The Namib Desert is a biodiversity hotspot for many invertebrates, including spiders. Tube‐dwelling spiders belonging to the Ariadna genus are widespread in gravel plains. These sit‐and‐wait predators share a particular behavior, as they spend their life in tunnels in the soil, surrounding the entrance of their burrow with stone rings. We investigated five spider populations taking into account environmental parameters, functional traits, and molecular data. We have chosen the temperature at the soil surface and at the bottom of the burrow, the air humidity, and the soil granulometry to define the environment. The chosen functional traits were the diameter and depth of the burrows, the ratio between weight and length, the thermal properties of their silks, and the number of ring elements. The molecular branch lengths and the evolutionary distance emerging from cytochrome oxidase I gene sequences summarized the molecular analysis. Our study highlights a strong coherence between the resulting evolutionary lineages and the respective geographical distribution. Multivariate analyses of both environmental and molecular data provide the same phylogenetic interpretation. Low intrapopulation sequence divergence and the high values between population sequence divergence (between 4.9% and 26.1%) might even suggest novel taxa which deserve further investigation. We conclude that both the Kimura distance and the branch lengths are strengthening the environmental clustering of these peculiar sites in Namibia.

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Assessing the taxonomic resolution of southern African trapdoor spiders (Araneae: Ctenizidae; Cyrtaucheniidae; Idiopidae) and implications for their conservation

Engelbrecht

Prendini

2011

Biodivers Conserv

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Descriptions of New Genera and Species of South African Spiders

Cited by 30 publications

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On the First Asian Spiders of the Family Caponiidae (Araneae, Haplogynae), with Notes on the African Genus Diploglena

On the First Asian Spiders of the Family Caponiidae (Araneae, Haplogynae), with Notes on the African Genus Diploglena

How soil granulometry, temperature, and water predict genetic differentiation in Namibian spiders (Ariadna: Segestriidae) and explain their behavior

Assessing the taxonomic resolution of southern African trapdoor spiders (Araneae: Ctenizidae; Cyrtaucheniidae; Idiopidae) and implications for their conservation

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