Damastes (spider)
For the character in Greek mythology, see Procrustes.
| Damastes | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Sparassidae |
| Genus: | Damastes Simon, 1880 |
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Damastes is a genus of huntsman spiders native to Madagascar, Mozambique, and Seychelles. It is classified under the family Sparassidae, though its subfamilial classification remains unclear.[1][2] It contains the following species:[3]
- Damastes atrignathus Strand, 1908 - Madagascar
- Damastes coquereli Simon, 1880 - Madagascar
- Damastes coquereli affinis Strand, 1907 - Madagascar
- Damastes decoratus (Simon, 1897) - Madagascar (transferred from the genus Rhitymna)
- Damastes fasciolatus (Simon, 1903) - Madagascar (transferred from the genus Rhitymna)
- Damastes flavomaculatus Simon, 1880 - Madagascar
- Damastes grandidieri Simon, 1880 - Madagascar
- Damastes majungensis Strand, 1907 - Madagascar
- Damastes malagassus (Fage, 1926) - Madagascar (transferred from the genus Rhitymna)
- Damastes malagasus (Karsch, 1881) - Madagascar
- Damastes masculinus Strand, 1908 - Madagascar
- Damastes nigrichelis (Strand, 1907) - Mozambique (transferred from the genus Rhitymna)
- Damastes nossibeensis Strand, 1907 - Madagascar
- Damastes oswaldi Lenz, 1891 - Madagascar
- Damastes pallidus (Schenkel, 1937) - Madagascar (transferred from the genus Rhitymna)
- Damastes sikoranus Strand, 1906 - Madagascar
- Damastes validus (Blackwall, 1877) -Seychelles (transferred from the genus Rhitymna)
References
- ↑ Peter Jäger (2002). "Heteropodinae: Transfers and Synonymies (Arachnida: Araneae: Sparassidae" (PDF). Acta Arachnologica 51 (1): 33–61. doi:10.2476/asjaa.51.33.
- ↑ Peter Jäger (1997). "First results of a taxonomic revision of the SE Asian Sparassidae (Araneae)" (PDF). Proceedings of the 17th European Colloquium of Arachnology, Edinburgh 1997: 53–59.
- ↑ Norman I. Platnick. "The World Spider Catalog, Version 12.0". The American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved December 18, 2011.
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