Taxon details

Family: Lycosidae / Genus: Trabea

Trabea rubriceps Lawrence, 1952

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2025-03-13
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019259]
  • Distribution: South Africa, Lesotho
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Kwazulu-Natal Museum (NMSA), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; f (5542) (Lawrence, 1952a)
Taxonomic references
Trabaea rubriceps Lawrence, 1952a: 221, f. 73 (Df).
Trabaeosa rubriceps Roewer, 1955c: 297.
Trabea rubriceps Roewer, 1959b: 169 (T from Trabaeosa).
Trabea rubriceps Russell-Smith, 1982: 88, f. 10A-D (f).
Trabea rubriceps Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021l: 66, 5 f. (f).
Trabea rubriceps Russell-Smith & Logunov, 2025: 127, f. 39-50, A1, A3, E1, E3 (Dm, f).
References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021l). The Lycosidae of South Africa. Version 1: part 2 (L-Z). South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 82 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6324723 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R. F. (1952a). New spiders from the eastern half of South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 12: 183-226. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1959b). Araneae Lycosaeformia II (Lycosidae). Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba, Mission G. F. de Witte 55: 1-518. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Russell-Smith, A. (1982). A revision of the genus Trabaea Simon (Araneae: Lycosidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 74(1): 69-91. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1982.tb01141.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Russell-Smith, T. & Logunov, D. V. (2025). New species and new records of the wolf spider genus Trabea Simon, 1876 from South Africa (Araneae: Lycosidae). Arachnology 20(1): 121-131. doi:10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.121 download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2025-03-13 New taxonomic reference entry Russell-Smith & Logunov, 2025 n/a
2025-03-13 First description of male Russell-Smith & Logunov, 2025 n/a (Old value)
2022-06-29 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021l n/a
2022-06-29 Species distribution update Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021l n/a (Old value)