Griswoldia
| Griswoldia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Zoropsidae |
| Genus: | Griswoldia Dippenaar-Schoeman & Jocqué, 1997[1] |
| Type species | |
| G. robusta (Simon, 1898)
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| Species | |
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12, see text | |
Griswoldia is a genus of southern African false wolf spiders. It was first described by A. S. Dippenaar-Schoeman and Rudy Jocqué in 1997,[2] and it has only been found in South Africa.[1]
Species
[edit]As of November 2021[update] it contains twelve species:[1]
- G. acaenata (Griswold, 1991) – South Africa
- G. disparilis (Lawrence, 1952) – South Africa
- G. leleupi (Griswold, 1991) – South Africa
- G. meikleae (Griswold, 1991) – South Africa
- G. melana (Lawrence, 1938) – South Africa
- G. natalensis (Lawrence, 1938) – South Africa
- G. punctata (Lawrence, 1942) – South Africa
- G. robusta (Simon, 1898) – South Africa
- G. sibyna (Griswold, 1991) – South Africa
- G. transversa (Griswold, 1991) – South Africa
- G. urbensis (Lawrence, 1942) – South Africa
- G. zuluensis (Lawrence, 1938) – South Africa
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Gen. Griswoldia Dippenaar-Schoeman & Jocqué, 1997". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-11-25.
- ^ Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S.; Jocqué, R. (1997). African Spiders: An Identification Manual. Plant Protection Research Institute Pretoria. p. 392. ISBN 9780621175448.
Further reading
[edit]- Polotow, D.; Carmichael, A.; Griswold, C. E. (2015). "Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of Lycosoidea spiders (Araneae, Entelegynae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 29 (2): 124–163. doi:10.1071/IS14041.
- Raven, R. J.; Stumkat, K. S. (2005). "Revisions of Australian ground-hunting spiders: II. Zoropsidae (Lycosoidea: Araneae)". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 50: 347–423.
- Wunderlich, J. (2004). "The fossil Zoropsidae in Baltic amber with revised diagnoses of the family Zoropsidae and its fossil and extant higher taxa (Arachnida, Araneae)". Beiträge zur Araneologie. 3: 1489–1522.
- Silva-Dávila, D. (2003-02-06). "Higher-level relationships of the spider family Ctenidae (Araneae: Ctenoidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 274: 1–86. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2003)274<0001:HLROTS>2.0.CO;2.