Damastes (spider)

Damastes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Chelicerata
Class:Arachnida
Order:Araneae
Infraorder:Araneomorphae
Family:Sparassidae
Genus:Damastes
Simon, 1880
Species

See text.

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

  1. ↑ Peter Jäger (2002). "Heteropodinae: Transfers and Synonymies (Arachnida: Araneae: Sparassidae" (PDF). Acta Arachnologica. 51 (1): 33&ndash, 61. doi:10.2476/asjaa.51.33.
  2. ↑ 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&ndash, 59. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-26.
  3. ↑ Norman I. Platnick. "The World Spider Catalog, Version 12.0". The American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved December 18, 2011.
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