Damastes (spider)

Damastes is a genus of huntsman spiders native to Madagascar, Mozambique, and Seychelles. It is classified under the family Sparassidae, though its subfamilial classification remains unclear.^[1]^[2] It contains the following species:^[3]

Damastes atrignathus Strand, 1908 - Madagascar
Damastes coquereli Simon, 1880 - Madagascar
- Damastes coquereli affinis Strand, 1907 - Madagascar
Damastes decoratus (Simon, 1897) - Madagascar (transferred from the genus Rhitymna)
Damastes fasciolatus (Simon, 1903) - Madagascar (transferred from the genus Rhitymna)
Damastes flavomaculatus Simon, 1880 - Madagascar
Damastes grandidieri Simon, 1880 - Madagascar
Damastes majungensis Strand, 1907 - Madagascar
Damastes malagassus (Fage, 1926) - Madagascar (transferred from the genus Rhitymna)
Damastes malagasus (Karsch, 1881) - Madagascar
Damastes masculinus Strand, 1908 - Madagascar
Damastes nigrichelis (Strand, 1907) - Mozambique (transferred from the genus Rhitymna)
Damastes nossibeensis Strand, 1907 - Madagascar
Damastes oswaldi Lenz, 1891 - Madagascar
Damastes pallidus (Schenkel, 1937) - Madagascar (transferred from the genus Rhitymna)
Damastes sikoranus Strand, 1906 - Madagascar
Damastes validus (Blackwall, 1877) -Seychelles (transferred from the genus Rhitymna)

References

^ Peter Jäger (2002). "Heteropodinae: Transfers and Synonymies (Arachnida: Araneae: Sparassidae" (PDF). Acta Arachnologica. 51 (1): 33–61. doi:10.2476/asjaa.51.33.
^ Peter Jäger (1997). "First results of a taxonomic revision of the SE Asian Sparassidae (Araneae)" (PDF). Proceedings of the 17th European Colloquium of Arachnology, Edinburgh 1997: 53–59.
^ Norman I. Platnick. "The World Spider Catalog, Version 12.0". The American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved December 18, 2011.

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