Smeringopus

Smeringopus is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1890.[2]

Smeringopus
Smeringopus pallidus female with egg sac.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pholcidae
Subfamily: Holocneminae
Genus: Smeringopus
Simon, 1890[1]
Type species
S. pallidus
(Blackwall, 1858)
Species

55, see text

Species

As of June 2019 it contains fifty-five species, found in Africa, South America, Asia, Australia, and on the Pacific Islands:[1]

  • S. affinitatus Strand, 1906 – Ethiopia
  • S. arambourgi Fage, 1936 – Ethiopia, Somalia
  • S. atomarius Simon, 1910 – Namibia, Botswana, South Africa
  • S. badplaas Huber, 2012 – South Africa
  • S. blyde Huber, 2012 – South Africa
  • S. bujongolo Huber, 2012 – Congo, Uganda
  • S. butare Huber, 2012 – Congo, Rwanda, Burundi
  • S. bwindi Huber, 2012 – Congo, Uganda
  • S. carli Lessert, 1915 – Uganda, Tanzania, Comoros, Madagascar
  • S. chibububo Huber, 2012 – Mozambique
  • S. chogoria Huber, 2012 – Kenya
  • S. cylindrogaster (Simon, 1907) – West, Central Africa
  • S. dehoop Huber, 2012 – South Africa
  • S. dundo Huber, 2012 – Congo, Angola
  • S. florisbad Huber, 2012 – South Africa
  • S. hanglip Huber, 2012 – South Africa
  • S. harare Huber, 2012 – Zimbabwe
  • S. hypocrita Simon, 1910 – Namibia, South Africa
  • S. isangi Huber, 2012 – Congo
  • S. kalomo Huber, 2012 – Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Madagascar
  • S. katanga Huber, 2012 – Congo
  • S. koppies Huber, 2012 – Botswana, South Africa
  • S. lesnei Lessert, 1936 – Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  • S. lesserti Kraus, 1957 – West, Central Africa
  • S. lineiventris Simon, 1890 – Yemen
  • S. lotzi Huber, 2012 – South Africa
  • S. lubondai Huber, 2012 – Congo
  • S. luki Huber, 2012 – Congo
  • S. lydenberg Huber, 2012 – South Africa
  • S. mayombe Huber, 2012 – Congo
  • S. mgahinga Huber, 2012 – Congo, Uganda
  • S. mlilwane Huber, 2012 – Swaziland, South Africa
  • S. moxico Huber, 2012 – Angola
  • S. mpanga Huber, 2012 – Uganda
  • S. natalensis Lawrence, 1947 – Mozambique, South Africa. Introduced to Australia
  • S. ndumo Huber, 2012 – South Africa
  • S. ngangao Huber, 2012 – Kenya, Tanzania
  • S. oromia Huber, 2012 – Ethiopia
  • S. pallidus (Blackwall, 1858) (type) – Africa. Introduced to the Caribbeen, South America, Sri Lanka, China, Laos, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, Pacific islands
  • S. peregrinoides Kraus, 1957 – Central, East Africa
  • S. peregrinus Strand, 1906 – Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Madagascar
  • S. principe Huber, 2012 – São Tomé and Príncipe
  • S. roeweri Kraus, 1957 – Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi
  • S. rubrotinctus Strand, 1913 – Rwanda, Burundi
  • S. ruhiza Huber, 2012 – Uganda, Burundi
  • S. sambesicus Kraus, 1957 – Mozambique
  • S. saruanle Huber, 2012 – Somalia
  • S. sederberg Huber, 2012 – South Africa
  • S. similis Kraus, 1957 – Namibia
  • S. thomensis Simon, 1907 – São Tomé and Príncipe
  • S. tombua Huber, 2012 – Angola
  • S. turkana Huber, 2012 – Ethiopia, Kenya
  • S. ubicki Huber, 2012 – South Africa
  • S. uisib Huber, 2012 – Namibia
  • S. zonatus Strand, 1906 – Ethiopia

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Smeringopus Simon, 1890". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. Simon, E. (1890). "Etudes arachnologiques. 22e Mémoire. XXXIV. Etude sur les arachnides de l'Yemen". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 10 (6): 77–124.


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