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Dysdera crocata
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Prosoma shape and eye pattern.
After Hannemann
et al. 1992.
Subspecies
Some taxa have been listed as subspecies, but
I do not recognize them here and include them
in the synonymy below. There is also a large
number of species described from southern
Europe and the islands of the Mediterranean
Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, some of which
might prove to be conspecific with Dysdera
crocata, either as synonyms or as subspecies.
I do not treat these taxa here, because they
were not described from Germany. This group of
taxa ("Dysdera crocata species group")
requires a full taxonomic revision.
Original
description
Synonyms
Dysdera crocota C. L. Koch, 1838
Dysdera crocata C. L. Koch, 1838
Dysdera crocata crocata C. L.
Koch, 1838
Dysdera interrita
Hentz, 1842
Dysdera gracilis Nicolet, 1849 (nec Wider,
1834)
Dysdera wollastoni Blackwall, 1864
Dysdera balearica Thorell, 1873
Dysdera caerulescens C. Koch, 1874 (p. 203)
Type locality:
"an dem westlichen Abhange des Stauffen
gegen das Lorsbacher hin" (western slope
of the Staufen (Main-Taunus-Kreis,
Hessen)).
Dysdera magna
Keyserling, 1877
Dysdera australiensis Rainbow, 1900
Dysdera crocata mutica Simon, 1911
Dysdera crocata parvula Simon, 1911
Dysdera sternalis Roewer, 1928
Dysdera cretica Roewer, 1928
Dysdera menozzii Caporiacco, 1937
Dysdera palmensis Schmidt, 1982
Dysdera inaequuscapillata Wunderlich, 1992
Dysdera
coerulescens auct. (misspelling)
Dysdera maurusia
auct. nec Thorell, 1873 (misidentification)
Dysdera rubicunda auct. nec C. L. Koch, 1838
(misidentification)
Dysdera erythrina auct. nec Walckenaer, 1802
(misidentifcation)
Note: the species name is spelt both crocota
and crocata in the original description by C.
L. Koch, thus leading to confusion as to which
spelling is the correct original spelling.
However, C. L. Koch always used crocata in his
subsequent publications. Therefore, crocota
should be regarded as a printer´s error
and crocata as the correct original spelling.
Identification
Distribution
Biology
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