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African cork-lid trapdoor spiders
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
Type species
S. caffrus (C. L. Koch, 1842)
Species
56, see text

Stasimopus is a genus of African mygalomorph spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1892. It is the only genus in the family Stasimopidae.

Species

As of November 2024 it contains fifty-six species and two subspecies, found in southern Africa:

• 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 dylani Brandt, Sole & Lyle, 2023 – South Africa
• Stasimopus erythrognathus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
• Stasimopus filmeri Engelbrecht & Prendini, 2012 – South Africa
• Stasimopus finni Brandt, Sole & Lyle, 2023 – South Africa
• Stasimopus fordi Hewitt, 1927 – South Africa
• Stasimopus gigas Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
• Stasimopus griswoldi Engelbrecht & Prendini, 2012 – South Africa
• Stasimopus hamartia Brandt, Sole & Lyle, 2023 – South Africa
• Stasimopus hewitti Engelbrecht & Prendini, 2012 – South Africa
• Stasimopus ignis Brandt, Sole & Lyle, 2023 – South Africa
• Stasimopus insculptus Pocock, 1901 – South Africa
  • Stasimopus i. peddiensis Hewitt, 1917 – South Africa
• Stasimopus karooensis Brandt, Sole & Lyle, 2023 – 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 malesociatus Brandt, Sole & Lyle, 2023 – 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 teras Brandt, Sole & Lyle, 2023 – South Africa
• Stasimopus theaei Brandt, Sole & Lyle, 2023 – 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
• Stasimopus venterstadensis Brandt, Sole & Lyle, 2023 – South Africa

In synonymy:

• S. dubius Hewitt, 1913 = Stasimopus robertsi Hewitt, 1910

References

1. ^ "Gen. Stasimopus Simon, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 21.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
2. Simon, E (1892). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
3. 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

• 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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