Taxon details

Family: Thomisidae / Genus: Thomisus

Thomisus scrupeus (Simon, 1886)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-11-21
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031500]
  • Distribution: Sub-Saharan Africa
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); f (17969) of Thomisus amanicus (Strand, 1907a)
  • Holotype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland; f (ARTO-0027856) of Thomisus caffer (Simon, 1904d)
  • Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; 1m 1f (7914) (Comellini, 1957)
Taxonomic references
Daradius scrupeus Simon, 1886g: 363 (Dmf).
Thomisus caffer Simon, 1904d: 69 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063124].
Thomisus amanicus Strand, 1907a: 537 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063123].
Thomisus amanicus Strand, 1907n: 652 (f).
Thomisus scrupeus Lessert, 1919: 210.
Thomisus caffer Lessert, 1923: 171, f. 16 (f).
Thomisus quadrituberculatus Lessert, 1943: 327, f. 27-29 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063125].
Thomisus lindneri Roewer, 1956b: 47, f. 1-2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063126].
Thomisus scrupeus Comellini, 1957: 26, f. 42-43 (f, S of Thomisus amanicus, T. caffer and T. quadrituberculatus).
Thomisus scrupeus Jézéquel, 1964c: 1121, f. 21-22 (mf).
Thomisus scrupeus Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1983: 17, f. 9a-g (mf, S of Thomisus lindneri).
Thomisus scrupeus Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1988: 432, f. 2 (m).
Thomisus scrupeus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020w: 57, 39: 1 f., 57: 6 f., 58: 4 f. (mf).
Thomisus scrupeus Dippenaar-Schoeman & Webb, 2023d: 13, f. 1-8, 10-23 (mf).
References

Comellini, A. (1957). Notes sur les Thomisidae d'Afrique. 2. - Le genre Thomisus. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 55(1-2): 1-32. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (1983). The spider genera Misumena, Misumenops, Runcinia and Thomisus (Araneae: Thomisidae) of southern Africa. Entomology Memoir, Department of Agriculture Republic of South Africa 55: 1-66. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (1988). An annotated checklist of the crab-spiders of Malawi (Araneae: Thomisidae). I. The genera Misumenops, Runcinia and Thomisus, with a description of a new species. Revue Zoologique Africaine 102: 429-438. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2020w). The Thomisidae of South Africa. Part 3 Sm-T. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 79 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7513278 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. & Webb, P. (2023d). Additional information on the brown crab spider Thomisus scrupeus (Simon, 1886) from South Africa (Araneae: Thomisidae). SANSA Newsletter 46: 13-16. doi:10.5281/zenodo.8137430 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jézéquel, J.-F. (1964c). Araignées de la savane de Singrobo (Côte d'Ivoire). III. – Thomisidae. Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire (A) 26(4): 1103-1143. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1919). Araignées du Kilimandjaro et du Mérou (suite). 3. Thomisidae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 27(5): 99-234, pl. 2. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.36325 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1923). Araignées du sud de l'Afrique. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 30: 161-212. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1943). Araignées du Congo belge (Troisième partie). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 50(3): 305-338. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1956b). Einige Araneen aus Ostafrika. Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 111: 47-49. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1886g). Etudes arachnologiques. 18e Mémoire. XXVI. Matériaux pour servir à la faune des Arachnides du Sénégal. (Suivi d'une appendice intitulé: Descriptions de plusieurs espèces africaines nouvelles). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 5: 345-396. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1904d). Descriptions de quelques arachnides nouveaux faisant partie de la collection du Musée d'histoire naturelle de Genève. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 12: 65-70. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907a). Vorläufige Diagnosen afrikanischer und südamerikanischer Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 31: 525-558. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907n). Afrikanische Spinnen (exkl. Aviculariiden) hauptsächlich aus dem Kapland. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 25: 557-731. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-07-12 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman & Webb, 2023d n/a
2023-01-28 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020w n/a