Poecilochroa pugnax

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gnaphosoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Araneomorphae Taxon: Neocribellatae Series: Entelegynae Sectio: Dionycha Superfamilia: Gnaphosoidea

Familia: Gnaphosidae
Subfamilia: Herpyllinae
Genus: Poecilochroa
Species: Poecilochroa pugnax

Name

Poecilochroa pugnax (Pickard-Cambridge, 1874)

Type locality: Cairo, Egypt.

Holotype: HECO. male ♂. B. 254.

Synonyms

• Drassus pugnax Pickard-Cambridge, 1874: 399 (original combination)
• Poecilochroa pugnax (Pickard-Cambridge): Simon, 1908: 423
• Poecilochroa lesserti Denis, 1947: 62 (synonymized by Levy, 1999: 433).
  • Type locality: Siwa Oasis, Egypt
    • Syntypes: BMNH. male ♂ and female ♀. male ♂ from Birket Khamissa BM,1936.7.10.134a. female ♀ from Birket Khamissa BM, 1936.2.12.1049.

References

Primary references

• Pickard-Cambridge, O. 1874. On some new species of Drassides. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 42(3): 370-419. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1874.tb02495.x. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Denis, J. 1947: Results of the Armstrong College expedition to Siwa Oasis (Libyan desert), 1935. Spiders [Araneae]. Bulletin de la Société Fouad 1er d'Entomologie 31: 17-103. Reference page. 
• Levy, G. 1999c. Spiders of six uncommon drassodine genera (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 45: 427-452. Reference page. 

Links

• Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]