ENTOMOLOGY RESOURCES
ARACHNIDA


COLEOPTERA


EMBIIDINA


FAUNAL PROJECTS

CAS Madagascar Project
-1st Expedition
-2nd Expedition
-3rd Expedition
-4th Expedition
-Madagascar Cerambycidae
-Madagascar Neuropterida
-Madagascar Sphecidae
-Madagascar Spiders

CAS Gulf of Guinea Islands

-Arthropod Surveys on
  Bioko, Equatorial Guinea

 -Flies - Diptera
 -Carabidae
 -Spiders - Aranea


FOSSIL INSECTS

HYMENOPTERA

MECOPTERA

NEUROPTERA

PISAURIDAE RECORDED FROM MADAGASCAR

By V. D. Roth, D. Silva Davila, D. Ubick, and C. E. Griswold

(complete synonymies and references at Platnick, N. I. 2003.
The world spider catalog, version 3.5. American Museum of Natural History, online at:
http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog81-87/index.html)




PISAURIDAE Simon, 1890
Nomen dubium: Euprosthenops hilaris (O. P.-Cambridge, 1877b: 569, pl. 57, f. 7, f, Africa, originally in Podophthalma, T here by Caporiacco, 1949a: 332, f. 9) -- Blandin, 1977b: 138.

Caripetella Strand, 1928
mf madagascariensis (Lenz, 1886) *....................Madagascar, Comoro Is.
  Ocyale m. Lenz, 1886: 402, pl. 10, f. 8,14 (Dmf).
  C. m. Blandin, 1979: 356, f. 2, 10, 20, 28, 40 (mf).
  C. m. Sierwald, 1997: 368

Dolomedes Latreille, 1804
j saccalavus Strand, 1907.................... Madagascar
  D. s. Strand, 1907d: 742 (Dj).

Hygropoda Thorell, 1894
f madagascarica Strand, 1907....................Madagascar
  H. m. Strand, 1907d: 742 (Df).

Hypsithylla Simon, 1903
j linearis Simon, 1903 *....................Madagascar
  H. l. Simon, 1903d: 38 (Dj).

Maypacius
Simon, 1898
mf bilineatus (Pavesi, 1895) *....................Central, East Africa, Madagascar
  Tetragonophthalma b. Pavesi, 1895a: 524 (Df).
  M. b. Blandin, 1975a: 386, f. 16-17 (f).

f vittiger Simon, 1898....................Madagascar
  M. v. Simon, 1898f: 13 (Df).
  M. v. Blandin, 1975a: 385, f. 13 (removed f from S of M. bilineatus).
  M. v. Sierwald, 1997: 398

Paracladycnis Blandin, 1979
f vis Blandin, 1979 *....................Madagascar
  P. v. Blandin, 1979: 370, f. 8, 11, 19, 37 (Df).
  P. v. Sierwald, 1997: 369

Ransonia Blandin, 1979
f mahasoana Blandin, 1979 *....................Madagascar
  R. m. Blandin, 1979: 372, f. 6, 14, 26, 38-39 (Df).
  R. m. Sierwald, 1997: 369

Tallonia Simon, 1889
f picta Simon, 1889 *....................Madagascar
  T. p. Simon, 1889b: 223 (Dj).
  T. p. Blandin, 1979: 353, f. 1, 9, 18, 27 (Tj from Nilus, Sf).
  T. p. Sierwald, 1997: 369

Thalassiopsis Roewer, 1955
m vachoni Roewer, 1955 *....................Madagascar
  T. v. Roewer, 1955b: 354, f. 99b, 150 (Dm).

Thalassius Simon, 1885
f esimoni Sierwald, 1984....................Madagascar
  T. e. Sierwald, 1984: 411, f. 4b-5 (Df).

f leoninus Strand, 1916....................Madagascar
  T. l. Strand, 1916b: 75 (Df).
  T. l. Sierwald, 1984: 413, f. 6a-d (Df; removed from S of T. leo).

f majungensis Strand, 1907....................Madagascar
  T. m. Strand, 1907d: 741 (Dj).
  T. m. Sierwald, 1984: 409, f. 2-4a (f).

Vuattouxia Blandin, 1979
  sp., Sierwald 1997: 369


web page created by Norman D. Penny

Last Update July 2003

First Madagascar Expedition

Madagascar Project Home Page

Madagascar Spiders

 
Return to Top