Gorgyrella

Gorgyrella is a genus of African armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by William Frederick Purcell in 1902.[2]

Gorgyrella
Gorgyrella sp. "African Red Trapdoor Spider"
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Idiopidae
Genus: Gorgyrella
Purcell, 1902[1]
Type species
G. namaquensis
Purcell, 1902
Species

4, see text

Species

As of May 2019 it contains four species and one subspecies:[1]

  • Gorgyrella hirschhorni (Hewitt, 1919) – Zimbabwe
  • Gorgyrella inermis Tucker, 1917 – Tanzania
  • Gorgyrella namaquensis Purcell, 1902 (type) – South Africa
  • Gorgyrella schreineri Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
    • Gorgyrella s. minor (Hewitt, 1916) – South Africa

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Gorgyrella Purcell, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  2. Purcell, W. F. (1902). "New South African trap-door spiders of the family Ctenizidae in the collection of the South African Museum". Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 11: 348–382.

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