CAPONIIDAE, Simon, 1890

Haddad, Charles R. & Marusik, Yuri M., 2019, Clarifying the taxonomic status and distributions of the spider species collected during the Leonhard Schultze expeditions in western and central southern Africa (Arachnida: Araneae), Zootaxa 4608 (3), pp. 451-483 : 462

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4608.3.3
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scientific name	CAPONIIDAE
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Treatment

CAPONIIDAE View in CoL View at ENA

Caponia capensis Purcell, 1904: 232 View in CoL [F]

Localities in Purcell (1908) and countries: Kamaggas and Steinkopf, Little Namaqualand [ RSA].

Distribution in WSC: Mozambique, RSA.

*Actual current distribution: RSA, Nam.

Recent taxonomic treatment: Not redescribed.

Remarks: The record of C. capensis in Lessert (1936) , a paper dealing largely with Mozambican spiders, is clearly indicated as being Lüderitzbucht [=Lüderitz] in Afrique Sud-occidentale [= Namibia], so the distribution in the WSC is erroneous. Consider- ing the relatively restricted ranges of most Caponia Simon, 1890 in South Africa (Dippenaar-Schoeman et al. 2010), even this record from Namibia may be a misidentification.

Diploglena sp. [juveniles]: 232 [F]

Localities in Purcell (1908) and countries: Port Nolloth, Little Namaqualand [ RSA].

Distribution in WSC: n/a.

Recent taxonomic treatment: Haddad (2015).

Remark: These juveniles might belong to either D. arida Haddad, 2015 or D. karooica Haddad, 2015 , both of which occur in the extreme north-western Northern Cape in the vicinity of Port Nolloth (Haddad 2015).