ENTOMOLOGY RESOURCES
ARACHNIDA


COLEOPTERA


EMBIIDINA


FAUNAL PROJECTS

CAS Madagascar Project
-1st Expedition
-2nd Expedition
-3rd Expedition
-4th Expedition
-Madagascar Cerambycidae
-Madagascar Neuropterida
-Madagascar Sphecidae
-Madagascar Spiders

CAS Gulf of Guinea Islands

-Arthropod Surveys on
  Bioko, Equatorial Guinea

 -Flies - Diptera
 -Carabidae
 -Spiders - Aranea


FOSSIL INSECTS

HYMENOPTERA

MECOPTERA

NEUROPTERA

 

SELENOPIDAE RECORDED FROM MADAGASCAR

By V. D. Roth, D. Silva Davila, D. Ubick, and C. E. Griswold

(complete synonymies and references at Platnick, N. I. 2003.
The world spider catalog, version 3.5. American Museum of Natural History, online at:
http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog81-87/index.html)




SELENOPIDAE Simon, 1897

Anyphops Benoit, 1968
mf benoiti Corronca, 1998....................Madagascar
  A. b. Corronca, 1998a: 24, f. 1-4 (Dmf).

Hovops Benoit, 1968
f dufouri (Vinson, 1863)....................Madagascar, Réunion
  Selenops dufourii Vinson, 1863: 79, 303, pl. 3, f. 1 (Df).
  H. d. Benoit, 1968a: 117 (Tf from Selenops).

mf legrasi (Simon, 1887)....................Madagascar
  Selenops l. Simon, 1887g: 467 (Dmf).
  H. l. Benoit, 1968a: 117 (Tmf from Selenops).

f madagascariensis (Vinson, 1863)....................Madagascar
  Selenops m. Vinson, 1863: 83, 303, pl. 3, f. 3 (Df).
  H. m. Benoit, 1968a: 117 (Tf from Selenops).

f mariensis (Strand, 1908)....................Madagascar
  Selenops m. Strand, 1908f: 474 (Df).
  H. m. Benoit, 1968a: 117 (Tf from Selenops).

m modestus (Lenz, 1886)....................Madagascar
  Selenops m. Lenz, 1886: 399, pl. 10, f. 6 (Dm).
  H. m. Benoit, 1968a: 117 (Tm from Selenops).

mf pusillus (Simon, 1887) *....................Madagascar
  Selenops pusilla Simon, 1887g: 466 (Df).
  Selenops p. Simon, 1897a: 25, f. 20, 24 (Dm).
  H. p. Benoit, 1968a: 117 (Tmf from Selenops).

Selenops Latreille, 1819
Nomen dubium:
S. modestellus Strand, 1907a: 540, 1907n: 667 (f, Madagascar) -- Benoit, 1968a: 118, 141.
mf vigilans Pocock, 1898....................West, Central, East Africa, Madagascar
  S. v. Pocock, 1898d: 349, f. 2 (Df).
  S. werneri Berland, 1922: 62, f. 3, pl. A4, f. 1 (f).
  S. v. Corronca, 2002: 29, f. 74-78 (mf).


web page created by Norman D. Penny

Last Update July 2003

First Madagascar Expedition

Madagascar Project Home Page

Madagascar Spiders

 

 
Return to Top