Smeringopus Simon, 1890

Bernhard A. Huber & Charles M. Warui, 2012, East African pholcid spiders: an overview, with descriptions of eight new species (Araneae, Pholcidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 29 (29), pp. 1-44 : 12-14

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scientific name

Smeringopus Simon, 1890
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Smeringopus Simon, 1890 View in CoL View at ENA

With 55 species, Smeringopus is currently the most species-rich Afrotropical pholcid genus. Eighteen species in eight species groups have been described from East Africa ( Huber 2012). Three species groups are endemic to East Africa: rubrotinctus group (5 species), chogoria group (2 species) and S. ngangao . The other five groups (arambourgi group; peregrinus group; roeweri group; S. pallidus (Blackwall, 1858) ; S. lesserti Kraus, 1957 ) are more widely distributed ( Huber 2012) ( Fig. 26 View Figs 24 - 27 ).

57. Smeringopus bujongolo Huber, 2012 View in CoL . Uganda, Congo DR ( Huber 2012).

58. Smeringopus butare Huber, 2012 View in CoL . Congo DR, Burundi, Rwanda ( Huber 2012).

59. Smeringopus bwindi Huber, 2012 View in CoL . Congo DR, Uganda ( Huber 2012).

60. Smeringopus carli Lessert, 1915 View in CoL . Uganda ( Lessert 1915), Tanzania ( Huber 2012).

61. Smeringopus chogoria Huber, 2012 View in CoL . Kenya ( Huber 2012).

62. Smeringopus lesserti Kraus, 1957 View in CoL . Congo DR ( Huber 2012).

63. Smeringopus lubondai Huber, 2012 View in CoL . Congo DR ( Huber 2012).

64. Smeringopus mgahinga Huber, 2012 View in CoL . Congo DR, Uganda ( Huber 2012).

65. Smeringopus mpanga Huber, 2012 View in CoL . Uganda ( Huber 2012).

66. Smeringopus ngangao Huber, 2012 View in CoL . Kenya, Tanzania ( Huber 2012).

67. Smeringopus pallidus (Blackwall, 1858) View in CoL . Burundi, Congo DR, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda ( Huber 2012).

68. Smeringopus peregrinoides Kraus, 1957 View in CoL . Rwanda, Tanzania ( Kraus 1957; Huber 2012), Congo DR, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya ( Huber 2012).

69. Smeringopus peregrinus Strand, 1906 View in CoL . Tanzania ( Strand 1906b; Tullgren 1910; Huber 2012), Kenya, Uganda ( Huber 2012).

70. Smeringopus roeweri Kraus, 1957 View in CoL . Rwanda ( Kraus 1957), Congo DR, Malawi, Tanzania ( Huber 2012).

71. Smeringopus rubrotinctus Strand, 1913 View in CoL . Rwanda ( Strand 1913; Huber 2012), Burundi ( Huber 2012).

72. Smeringopus ruhiza Huber, 2012 View in CoL . Burundi, Uganda ( Huber 2012).

73. Smeringopus turkana Huber, 2012 View in CoL . Kenya, Ethiopia ( Huber 2012).

74. Smeringopus zonatus Strand, 1906 View in CoL . Ethiopia ( Strand 1906a).

Huber B. A. 2003 b. Southern African pholcid spiders: revision and cladistic analysis of Quamtana n. gen. and Spermophora Hentz (Araneae: Pholcidae), with notes on male-female covariation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139: 477 - 527. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1046 / j. 0024 - 4082.2003.00082. x

Huber B. A. 2003 a. High species diversity in one of the dominant groups of spiders in East African montane forests (Araneae: Pholcidae: Buitinga n. gen., Spermophora Hentz). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 137: 555 - 619. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1046 / j. 1096 - 3642.2003.00053. x

Huber B. A. & Warui C. M. 2012. East African pholcid spiders: an overview, with descriptions of eight new species (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 29: 1 - 44. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5852 / ejt. 2012.29

Kraus O. 1957. Araneenstudien 1. Pholcidae (Smeringopodinae, Ninetinae). Senckenbergiana biologica 38 (3 / 4): 217 - 243.

Lessert R. de. 1915. Arachnides de l'Ouganda et de l'Afrique orientale allemande. Revue suisse de Zoologie 23: 1 - 80.

Strand E. 1906 a. Diagnosen nordafrikanischer, hauptsachlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelter Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 30: 655 - 690.

Strand E. 1906 b. Tropischafrikanische Spinnen des kgl. Naturalienkabinetts in Stuttgart. Jahreshefte des Vereins fur vaterlandische Naturkunde in Wurttemberg 62: 13 - 103.

Strand E. 1913. Arachnida. I. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 1907 - 1908, 4 (Zoologie II): 325 - 474. Leipzig.

Tullgren A. 1910. Araneae. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der schwedischen zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 3: 86 - 172. Stockholm.

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Figs 24 - 27. Known distributions of the genera Physocyclus, Quamtana, Smeringopus and Spermophora in East Africa. For detailed maps of Quamtana see Huber (2003 b), of Smeringopus see Huber (2012) and of Spermophora see Huber (2003 a). Squares: unidentified / undescribed specimens.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Pholcidae