Griswoldia
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Zoropsidae |
| Genus: | Griswoldia Dippenaar-Schoeman & Jocqué, 1997[1] |
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Griswoldia is a genus of southern African false wolf spiders. It was first described by A. S. Dippenaar-Schoeman and Rudy Jocqué in 1997,.[2] All described species are endemic to South Africa.[1]
Species
[edit]As of October 2025[update], this genus includes twelve species:[1]
- Griswoldia acaenata (Griswold, 1991)
- Griswoldia disparilis (Lawrence, 1952)
- Griswoldia leleupi (Griswold, 1991)
- Griswoldia meikleae (Griswold, 1991)
- Griswoldia melana (Lawrence, 1938)
- Griswoldia natalensis (Lawrence, 1938)
- Griswoldia punctata (Lawrence, 1942)
- Griswoldia robusta (Simon, 1898) (type species)
- Griswoldia sibyna (Griswold, 1991)
- Griswoldia transversa (Griswold, 1991)
- Griswoldia urbensis (Lawrence, 1942)
- Griswoldia zuluensis (Lawrence, 1938)
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Gen. Griswoldia Dippenaar-Schoeman & Jocqué, 1997". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-17.
- ↑ Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S.; Jocqué, R. (1997). African Spiders: An Identification Manual. Plant Protection Research Institute Pretoria. p. 392. ISBN 9780621175448.
Further reading
[edit]- Polotow, D.; Carmichael, A.; Griswold, C. E. (2015). "Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of Lycosoidea spiders (Araneae, Entelegynae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 29 (2): 124–163. doi:10.1071/IS14041.
- Raven, R. J.; Stumkat, K. S. (2005). "Revisions of Australian ground-hunting spiders: II. Zoropsidae (Lycosoidea: Araneae)". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 50: 347–423.
- Wunderlich, J. (2004). "The fossil Zoropsidae in Baltic amber with revised diagnoses of the family Zoropsidae and its fossil and extant higher taxa (Arachnida, Araneae)". Beiträge zur Araneologie. 3: 1489–1522.
- Silva-Dávila, D. (2003-02-06). "Higher-level relationships of the spider family Ctenidae (Araneae: Ctenoidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 274: 1–86. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2003)274<0001:HLROTS>2.0.CO;2.
