| African cork-lid trapdoor spiders | |
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| Female Stasimopus rufidens | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata | 
| Class: | Arachnida | 
| Order: | Araneae | 
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae | 
| Clade: | Avicularioidea | 
| Family: | Stasimopidae Opatova & Hedin, 2020  | 
| Genus: | Stasimopus Simon, 1892[1]  | 
| Type species | |
| S. caffrus (C. L. Koch, 1842)  | |
| Species | |
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Stasimopus is a genus of African mygalomorph spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1892.[2] It is the only genus in the family Stasimopidae.[1][3]
Species
As of June 2020 it contains forty-five species and two subspecies, found in southern Africa:[1]
- Stasimopus artifex Pocock, 1902 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus astutus Pocock, 1902 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus bimaculatus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus brevipalpis Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus caffrus (C. L. Koch, 1842) (type) – South Africa
 - Stasimopus castaneus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus coronatus Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus dreyeri Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus erythrognathus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus filmeri Engelbrecht & Prendini, 2012 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus fordi Hewitt, 1927 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus gigas Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus griswoldi Engelbrecht & Prendini, 2012 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus hewitti Engelbrecht & Prendini, 2012 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus insculptus Pocock, 1901 – South Africa
- Stasimopus i. peddiensis Hewitt, 1917 – South Africa
 
 - Stasimopus kentanicus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus kolbei Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus leipoldti Purcell, 1902 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus longipalpis Hewitt, 1917 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus mandelai Hendrixson & Bond, 2004 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus maraisi Hewitt, 1914 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus meyeri (Karsch, 1879) – Southeast Africa
 - Stasimopus minor Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus nanus Tucker, 1917 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus nigellus Pocock, 1902 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus obscurus Purcell, 1908 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus oculatus Pocock, 1897 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus palpiger Pocock, 1902 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus patersonae Hewitt, 1913 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus poweri Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus purcelli Tucker, 1917 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus quadratimaculatus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus qumbu Hewitt, 1913 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus robertsi Hewitt, 1910 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus rufidens (Ausserer, 1871) – South Africa
 - Stasimopus schoenlandi Pocock, 1900 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus schreineri Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus schultzei Purcell, 1908 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus spinipes Hewitt, 1917 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus spinosus Hewitt, 1914 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus steynsburgensis Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus suffuscus Hewitt, 1916 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus tysoni Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
 - Stasimopus umtaticus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
- Stasimopus u. rangeri Hewitt, 1927 – South Africa
 
 - Stasimopus unispinosus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
 
In synonymy:
- S. dubius Hewitt, 1913 = Stasimopus robertsi Hewitt, 1910
 
References
- 1 2 3 "Gen. Stasimopus Simon, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 21.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
 - ↑ Simon, E (1892). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
 - ↑ Opatova, V.; et al. (2020). "Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data". Systematic Biology. 69 (4): 671–707. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz064. PMID 31841157.
 
Further reading
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- Purcell, W. F. (1903). "New South African spiders of the families Migidae, Ctenizidae, Barychelidae Dipluridae, and Lycosidae". Annals of the South African Museum. 3: 69–142.
 - Hewitt, J. (1914). "Descriptions of new Arachnida from South Africa". Records of the Albany Museum Grahamstown. 3: 1–37.
 - Hewitt, J. (1913). "Descriptions of new and little known species of trapdoor spiders (Ctenizidae and Migidae) from South Africa". Records of the Albany Museum Grahamstown. 2: 404–434.
 - Engelbrecht, I.; Prendini, L. (2012). "Cryptic diversity of South African trapdoor spiders: three new species of Stasimopus Simon, 1892 (Mygalomorphae, Ctenizidae), and redescription of Stasimopus robertsi Hewitt, 1910". American Museum Novitates (3732): 1–42. doi:10.1206/3732.2. S2CID 86829293.
 - Hewitt, J. (1927). "On some new arachnids from South Africa". Records of the Albany Museum Grahamstown. 3: 416–429.
 
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