| Drassodella | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Gallieniellidae |
| Genus: | Drassodella Hewitt, 1916 |
| Type species | |
| D. salisburyi Hewitt, 1916
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| Species | |
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19, see text | |
Drassodella is a genus of African araneomorph spiders in the family Gallieniellidae, and was first described by John Hewitt in 1916. Originally placed with the ground spiders, it was moved to the Gallieniellidae in 1990.
Species
As of May 2019[update] it contains nineteen species, all found in South Africa:
- Drassodella amatola Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
- Drassodella aurostriata Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
- Drassodella baviaans Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
- Drassodella flava Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
- Drassodella guttata Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
- Drassodella lotzi Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
- Drassodella maculata Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
- Drassodella melana Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
- Drassodella montana Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
- Drassodella purcelli Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
- Drassodella quinquelabecula Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
- Drassodella salisburyi Hewitt, 1916 (type) – South Africa
- Drassodella septemmaculata (Strand, 1909) – South Africa
- Drassodella tenebrosa Lawrence, 1938 – South Africa
- Drassodella tolkieni Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
- Drassodella transversa Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
- Drassodella trilineata Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
- Drassodella vasivulva Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
- Drassodella venda Mbo & Haddad, 2019 – South Africa
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Drassodella Hewitt, 1916". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
- ^ Hewitt, J. (1916). "Descriptions of new South African spiders". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 5 (3): 209–211.
- ^ Platnick, N. I. (1990). "Spinneret morphology and the phylogeny of ground spiders (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea)". American Museum Novitates (2978): 39.
