Taxon details

Family: Theridiidae / Genus: Theridion

Theridion proximum Lawrence, 1964

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-11-04
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008630]
  • Distribution: St. Helena, South Africa
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa; f (B10028) (Lawrence, 1964)
Taxonomic references
Theridion proxima Lawrence, 1964: 69, f. 18-19 (Df).
Theridion proximum Brignoli, 1983c: 417.
Theridion proximum Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021A: 33, 2 f. (f).
Theridion proximum Sherwood et al., 2024e: 1278, f. 73A-F, 74A-G, 75A-D (Dm, f).
References

Brignoli, P. M. (1983c). A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press, 755 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021A). The Theridiidae of South Africa. Part 2 [R-T]. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 49 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7515998 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R. F. (1964). New cavernicolous spiders from South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 48: 57-75. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Henrard, A., Jocqué, R., Fowler, L., Marusik, Y. M., Maddison, W., Harvey, M. S., Hormiga, G., Rheims, C. A., Piacentini, L. N., Peters, M., Stevens, N., Joshua, D., Scipio-O’Dean, C. J., Ellick, G., Wilkins, V., Ashmole, M. & Ashmole, P. (2024e). Annotated checklist of the spiders of Saint Helena, with new records, descriptions of unknown sexes, new and restored genera, and two new species (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Arachnology 19(9): 1218-1291. doi:10.13156/arac.2024.19.9.1218 download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-11-04 New taxonomic reference entry Sherwood et al., 2024e n/a
2024-11-04 First description of male Sherwood et al., 2024e n/a (Old value)
2024-11-04 Species distribution update Sherwood et al., 2024e n/a (Old value)
2023-02-10 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021A n/a