Rudy Jocqué

Rudy Jocqué, Belgian arachnologist.

• Head of the Invertebrates (non-insects) Section in the department of Zoology at the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.
• E-mail: jocque@africamuseum.be

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 557 taxon names authored by Rudy Jocqué

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1979

• Jocqué, R. 1979. Description of Tybaertiella peniculifer n. gen., n. sp. and T. minor n. sp., erigonid twin species from Ivory Coast (Araneida, Erigonidae). Revue de Zoologie Africaine 93(3): 751-759. Reference page. 

1981

• Jocqué, R. 1981. Erigonid spiders from Malawi (Araneida, Linyphiidae). Revue de Zoologie Africaine 95(2): 470-492. Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R. 1981. Notes on African Linyphiidae (Araneida) I. A new genus from the Cape Verde Islands. Revue Zoologique Africaine 95: 829-832. Reference page. 

1983

• Bosmans, R. & Jocqué, R. 1983. Scientific report of the Belgian Mount Cameroon Expedition 1981. No. 9. Family Linyphiidae (Araneae). Revue de Zoologie Africaine 97: 581-617. Reference page. .
• Jocqué, R. 1983. Sur la synonymie de Callitrichia Fage et Atypena Simon avec la redescription de quelques espèces paléotropicales (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (4) 5(A): 235-245. Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R. 1983a. Notes sur les Linyphiidae (Araneae) d'Afrique II. Sur quelques représentants du Gabon. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (4) 5(A): 619-631. Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R. & Bosmans, R. 1983. Linyphiidae (Araneae) from Ivory Coast, with the description of three new genera. Zoologische Mededelingen 57(1): 1-18. Reference page. 
• Schmidt, G. & Jocqué, R. 1983. Spinnen von der Insel Réunion (Araneae). Revue de Zoologie Africaine 97: 353-364. Reference page. 

1984

• Jocqué, R. 1984. Notes on African Linyphiidae (Araneae) III. The genus Tybaertiella, with the description of a new species of Pelecopsis. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 6(5): 217-228. Reference page. 

1985

• Jocqué, R. 1985. Linyphiidae (Araneae) from the Comoro Islands. Revue de Zoologie Africaine 99: 197-230. Reference page. 

1986

• Jocqué, R. 1986. A revision of the genus Hermippus Simon, 1893 (Araneae: Zodariidae). Journal of Natural History 20: 7-22. Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R. & Scharff, N. 1986. Spiders (Araneae) of the family Linyphiidae from the Tanzanian mountain areas Usambara, Uluguru and Rungwe. Annalen Zoologische Wetenschappen 248: 1–61. Reference page. 
• Ono, H. & Jocqué, R. 1986. Two new species of the family Zodariidae from Saudi Arabia (Arachnida: Araneae). Fauna of Saudi Arabia 8: 6-11. Reference page. 
• Russell-Smith A. & Jocqué, R. 1986. New species and records of Linyphiidae (Araneae) from Kenya. Revue de Zoologie Africaine 99: 439-453. Reference page. 

1987

• Jocqué, R. 1987. Descriptions of new genera and species of African Zodariinae with a revision of the genus Heradida (Araneae, Zodariidae). Revue de Zoologie Africaine 101: 143-163. Reference page. 

1989

• Jocqué, R. 1989. A new African species and other new records of Hermippus (Araneae, Zodariidae). Biologisch Jaarboek Dodonaea 56: 105-110. Reference page. 

1991

• Jocqué, R. 1991a. A generic revision of the spider family Zodariidae (Araneae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 201: 1-160. Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R. 1991b. A revision of the spider genera Caesetius and Psammoduon (Araneae, Zodariidae). Cimbebasia 12: 75-98. Reference page. 
• Alderweireldt, M. & Jocqué, R. 1991. A remarkable new genus of wolf spiders from southwestern Spain (Araneae, Lycosidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie 61: 103-111. Reference page. ||
• Jocqué, R. & Ubick, D. 1991. A revision of the genus Ishania Chamberlin (Araneae: Zodariidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 8: 241-245. Reference page. 

1992

• Alderweireldt, M. & Jocqué 1992. A review of the nebulosa-group of Pardosa Koch 1847 in Africa, a complex with some highly variable species (Araneae Lycosidae). Tropical Zoology 5(1): 73-113. DOI: 10.1080/03946975.1992.10539183. . Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R. 1992. A new species and the first males of Suffasia with a redilimation [sic] of the subfamilies of the Zodariidae (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 99: 3-9. Reference page. 

1993

• Alderweireldt, M. & Jocqué, R. 1993. A redescription of Tricassa deserticola Simon, 1910, representing the Tricassinae, a new subfamily of wolf spiders (Araneae, Lycosidae). Belgian Journal of Zoology 123: 27-38. Reference page. 

1994

• Jocqué, R. 1994a. A termite mimicking spider: Thaumastochilus termitomimus n. sp. (Araneae, Zodariidae). Journal of African Zoology 108: 321-327. Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R. 1994b. Halidae, a new spider family from Madagascar (Araneae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 9(9): 281-289. Reference page. 

1995

• Jocqué, R. 1995: Notes on Australian Zodariidae (Araneae), 1. New taxa and key to the genera. Records of the Australian Museum 47(2): 117–140. DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.47.1995.123 Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R. 1995a: Notes on Australian Zodariidae (Araneae), II. Redescriptions and new records. Records of the Australian Museum 47(2): 141–160. Reference page. 

1996

• Fain, A. & Jocqué, R. 1996. A new genus and species of larval Eutrombidiinae Thor, 1935 (Acari: Microtrombidiidae) from an Afrotropical spider. International Journal of Acarology 22: 11–16. DOI: 10.1080/01647959608684075 Reference page. 

1997

• Jocqué, R. & Steyn, T. 1997. Petaloctenus, a new genus of Ctenidae from West-Africa (Arachnida, Araneae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie 67: 107–117. PDF Reference page. 

2000

• Baehr, B.C. & Jocqué 2000. Revisions of genera in the Asteron-complex (Araneae: Zodariidae). The new genera Cavasteron and Minasteron. Records of the Western Australian Museum 20: 1-30. Reference page. 
• Benjamin, S.P. & Jocqué, R. 2000. Two new species of the genus Suffasia from Sri Lanka (Araneae: Zodariidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 107(1): 97-106. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.80120. . Reference page. 
• Bosselaers, J. & Jocqué, R. 2000. Hortipes, a huge genus of tiny Afrotropical spiders (Araneae, Liocranidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 256: 1-108. Reference page. 

2001

• Jocqué, R. 2001. Chummidae, a new spider family (Arachnida, Araneae) from South Africa. Journal of Zoology 254(4): 481-493. DOI: 10.1017/S095283690100098X. Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R, & Alderweireldt, M. 2001. Tricassa madagascariensis n. sp., the second representative of the wolf spider subfamily Tricassinae (Araneae, Lycosidae). Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques 285: 29-31. Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R. & Bosmans, R.. 2001. A revision of the genus Selamia with the description of Amphiledorus gen. n. (Araneae, Zodariidae). Bulletin de l’Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de. Belgique (Entomologie) 71: 115–134. Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R. & Szűts, T. 2001. Bacelarella (Araneae, Salticidae) in eastern Côte d'Ivoire: salticid radiation in a poorly lit environment. Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques 285: 93-99. Reference page. 
• Szűts, T. & Jocqué, R. 2001. New species in the genus Bacelarella (Araneae, Salticidae) from Côte d'Ivoire Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques 285: 77-92. Reference page. 

2002

• Jocqué, R. & Baert, L. 2002. A revision of the Neotropical spider genera Tenedos O.P.-Cambridge and Ishania Chamberlin (Araneae, Zodariidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie 72: 67-173. Reference page. 
• Warui, C.M. & Jocqué, R. 2002. The first Gallieniellidae (Araneae) from eastern Africa. Journal of Arachnology 30(2): 307-315. DOI: 10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0307:TFGAFE]2.0.CO;2. . Reference page. 

2003

• Steyn, T.L., van der Donckt, J.F. & Jocqué, R. 2003. The Ctenidae (Araneae) of the rainforests in eastern Cote d'Ivoire. Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale: Serie in 8° - Sciences Zoologiques 290: 129–166. Reference page. 

2004

• Dankittipakul, P. & Jocqué, R.. 2004. Two new genera of Zodariidae (Araneae) from Southeast Asia. Revue suisse de Zoologie 111: 749–784. Reference page. 

2005

• Alderweireldt, M. & Jocqué, R. 2005. A taxonomic review of the Afrotropical representatives of the genus Hippasa (Araneae, Lycosidae) Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 2: 45–68. Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R. & Baert, L. 2005. Two new neotropical genera of the spider family Zodariidae (Araneae). Bulletin de l’Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique (Entomologie) 75: 119–133. Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R. & Churchill, T.B. 2005. On the new genus Tropizodium (Araneae: Zodariidae), representing the femoral organ clade in Australia and the Pacific. Zootaxa 944: 1–10. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page. .

2006

• Dankittipakul, P. & Jocqué, R. 2006. Two new species of Cydrela Thorell (Araneae: Zodariidae) from Thailand. The Raffless Bulletin of Zoology 54(1): 93-101. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R.& Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S. 2006. Spider families of the world. Tervuren, Belgium: Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale; [Pretoria, South Africa]: ARC-PPRI. ISBN 978-9075-89485-1. Reference page. 

2007

• Jocqué, R. & Scharff, N. 2007. Holmelgonia, a new name for the genus Elgonia Holm, 1989 (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 3: 161. PDF. Reference page. 

2008

• Fannes, W. & R. Jocqué. 2008. Ultrastructure of Antoonops, a new, ant-mimicking genus of Afrotropical Oonopidae (Araneae) with complex internal genitalia. American Museum Novitates 3614: 1-30. DOI: 10.1206/563.1. . Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R. 2008: A new candidate for a Gondwanaland distribution in the Zodariidae (Araneae): Australutica in Africa. ZooKeys 1: 59–66. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1.10 Reference page. 

2009

• Jocqué, J. 2009. Some keep it short: on the radiation in the Afrotropical spider genera Capheris and Systenoplacis (Araneae, Zodariidae) without male pedipalp complexity increase. Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 5: 77-148. Reference page. 
• Sudhikumar A.V., Jocqué, R. & Sebastian, P.A.. 2009. A new species of the ant spider genus Suffasia (Araneae: Zodariidae) from the Western Ghats, India with a key to the species of the genus. Zootaxa 2203: 59–64. Abstract & excerpt. . Reference page. 

2010

• Dankittipakul, Jocqué & Singtripop 2010. Five new Mallinella species from the Sundaland of Indonesia (Araneae, Zodariidae). Zootaxa 2636: 21–36. Preview. . Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R. 2010. A revision of the Afrotropical genus Diores (Araneae, Zodariidae). Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques 260: 1-81. Reference page. 
• Nzigidahera, B. & Jocqué, R. 2010. Two new species of Cydrela (Araneae, Zodariidae) extending the distribution of the genus into central Africa. Zootaxa 2578: 62–68. Preview. . Reference page. 

2011

• Jocqué, R. 2011. Order Araneae, family Zodariidae. In: van Harten, A. (ed.). Arthropod Fauna of the UAE 4: 15-22. Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R. & Bosselaers, J. 2011: Revision of Pseudocorinna Simon and a new related genus (Araneae: Corinnidae): two more examples of spider templates with a large range of complexity in the genitalia. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 162(2): 271–350. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00679.x. . Reference page. 
• Jocqué, M. & Jocqué, R., 2011: An overview of Neogovea species (Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi: Neogoveidae) with the description of Neogovea virginie n. sp. from French Guiana. Zootaxa 2754: 41–50. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2754.1.3Preview (PDF). Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R., Russell-Smith, A. & Alderweireldt, M. 2011. Katableps, a new genus of lycosid spiders from the forests of Madagascar (Araneae: Lycosidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 15(6): 181-187. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2011.15.6.181. . Reference page. 
• Nzigidahera, B., Desnyder, W. & Jocqué, R. 2011. An overview of the Afrotropical species of Mallinella (Araneae, Zodariidae) with the description of a remarkable new species from Burundi. Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 7: 19–27. Reference page. 

2012

• Dankittipakul, P., Jocqué, R. & Singtripop, T. 2012: Systematics and biogeography of the spider genus Mallinella Strand, 1906, with descriptions of new species and new genera from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Zodariidae). Zootaxa 3369: 1–327. Preview. . reference page 
• Dankittipakul, P., Jocqué, R. & Singtripop, T. 2012: Two new species of the spider genus Tropizodium Jocqué & Churchill, 2005 with notes on the femoral organ clade from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Zodariidae, Zodariinae). Zootaxa 3327: 62–68. Preview. Reference page. .
• Henrard, A. & Jocqué, R. 2012. An overview of Afrotropical canopy-dwelling Orchestina (Araneae, Oonopidae), with a wealth of remarkable sexual dimorphic characters. Zootaxa 3284: 1–104. Preview Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R., Bosselaers, J. & Henrard, A. 2012. A new species of Hortipes (Araneae, Corinnidae), the first spider with an insertable retrolateral tibial apophysis on the male palp. European Journal of Taxonomy 26: 1-11. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2012.26 . Reference page. 

2013

• Bosselaers, J. & Jocqué, R. 2013. Studies in Liocranidae (Araneae): a new afrotropical genus featuring a synapomorphy for the Cybaeodinae. European Journal of Taxonomy 40: 1-49. Reference page. 

2014

• Nzigidahera, B. & Jocqué, R. 2014: On the Afrotropical genus Holmelgonia (Araneae, Linyphiidae), with the description of three new species from the Albertine Rift. European journal of taxonomy, (77) DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2014.77 Reference page. 
• Nzigidahera, B. & Jocqué, R. 2014a: On the genus Pachygnatha (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) in the Albertine Rift of Burundi, with the description of three new species. European journal of taxonomy 93: 1–16. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2014.93.. Reference page. 
• Polotow, D. & Jocqué, R. 2014. The new spider genus Arctenus, an afrotropical representative of the Calocteninae (Araneae: Ctenidae). Journal of Arachnology 42(3): 240-247. full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2015

• Henrard, A. & Jocqué, R. 2015. On the new Afrotropical genus Suffrica with discovery of an abdominal gland and a dual femoral organ (Araneae, Zodariidae). Zootaxa 3972(1): 1–25. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3972.1.1. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R, & Henrard, A. 2015. Revalidation of Acanthinozodium Denis, 1966 with description of three new species and discovery of a remarkable male palpal character (Araneae, Zodariidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 114: 1-23. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2015.114 full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R. & van Harten, A. 2015. Three new species of Zodariidae (Araneae) from mainland Yemen and the Island Socotra. African Invertebrates 56(2): 393-408. Reference page. 
• Russell-Smith A. & Jocqué, R. 2015. New Zodariidae (Araneae) from Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania. African Invertebrates 56(2), p. 455–476. Reference page. 

2016

• Polotow, D. & Jocqué, R. 2016. Description of a new species of the Afrotropical spider genus Afroneutria (Araneae, Ctenidae). Zootaxa 4205(4): 395–400. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4205.4.8. Reference page. 

2017

• Alderweireldt, M. & Jocqué, R. 2017. Order Araneae, family Lycosidae. Arthropod fauna of the UAE 6: 3-20. Reference page. 
• Baehr, B.C. & Jocqué, R. 2017. The new endemic Australian genus Nosterella and a review of Nostera (Araneae: Zodariidae), including eight new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Nature 60: 53-76. DOI: 10.17082/j.2204-1478.60.2016.2016-14. . Reference page. 
• Jocqué M., Wellens S., Andrianarivosoa J.D., Rakotondraparany F., The Seing S. & Jocqué R. 2017. A new species of Ocyale (Araneae, Lycosidae) from Madagascar, with first observations on the biology of a representative in the genus. European Journal of Taxonomy 355: 1–13. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.355. Reference page. 
• Vanderhaegen, K. & Jocqué, R. 2017. A new Afromontane species of the ant-eating spider genus Dusmadiores and description of the male of D. deserticola (Araneae: Zodariidae). Zootaxa 4318(3): 548–560. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.7. Reference page. 

2018

• Jocqué, R, & Alderweireldt, M. 2018. New Chummidae (Araneae): quadrupling the size of the clade. European Journal of Taxonomy 412: 1–25. full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R, & Henrard, A. 2018. A revision of the genus Cicynethus Simon, 1910 (Araneae, Zodariidae), a tale of colour patterns. European Journal of Taxonomy 465: 1–35. full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2019

• Haddad, C.R., Henrard, A. & Jocqué, R. 2019. Revision of the ant-eating spider genus Mallinus Simon, 1893 (Araneae, Zodariidae). ZooKeys 822: 141-158. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.822.29835. Reference page. 

2020

• Jocqué, R, & Henrard, A. 2020. Three new species of the genus Ranops (Araneae: Zodariidae) from southern Africa. Pp 186–200 In Marusik, Yu.M., Haddad, C.R., Azarkina, G.N., Ballarin, F. & Crews, S.C. 2020. Festschrift in honour of Wanda Wesołowska on the occasion of her 70th birthday. Zootaxa 4899(1): 1–383. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4899.1.1 pdf Reference page.  Zootaxa 4899(1): 186–200. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4899.1.10. . Reference page. 
• Pett, B.L. & Jocqué, R. 2020. Description of two new species of Xevioso (Araneae: Phyxelididae) from Southern Africa, with the northernmost localities for the genus. European Journal of Taxonomy 636: 1–18. Reference page. 

2021

• Jocqué, R. & Jocqué, M. 2021. A new species of Katableps (Araneae: Lycosidae) from a remnant forest patch on Madagascar. Arachnology 18(9): 1013-1016. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2021.18.9.1013. . Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R. & & Baert, L. 2021. Colimarena, a new replacement name for the genus Colima Jocqué & Baert, 2005 (Araneae: Zodariidae). Bulletin de la Société Royale Belge d'Entomologie 157(2-3): 203. Reference page. 

2022

• Alderweireldt, M. & Jocqué 2022. A new species of Trabea Simon, 1876 (Araneae: Lycosidae) from West Africa fills a huge zoogeographical gap. Arachnology 19(1): 16-19. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2022.19.1.16. . Reference page. 
• Bosselaers, J. & Jocqué, R. 2022. Studies in the Liocranidae (Araneae): revision of Andromma Simon, 1893. European Journal of Taxonomy 850: 1–78. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.850.1997. . Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R., Jocqué, M. & Mbende, M. 2022. A new Cangoderces (Araneae, Telemidae) from DR Congo, the first telemid from Central Africa. Zootaxa 5162(4): 430–438. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5162.4.7. . Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R. & Russell-Smith, A. 2022. Murphydrela gen. n., a new genus of ant-eating spiders from central and east Africa (Araneae: Zodariidae). Arachnology 19(sp1): 238-246. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2022.19.sp1.238. . Reference page. 

2023

• Sherwood, D., Jocqué, R., Henrard, A. & Fowler, L. 2023. The scaffold web spider Nesticus helenensis Hubert, 1977, a junior synonym of Howaia mogera (Yaginuma, 1972) rest. comb., with revalidation of Howaia Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 (Araneae: Nesticidae). Zootaxa 5306(3): 397–400. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5306.3.8. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Brescovit, A.D., Henrard, A., Jocqué, R. & Fowler, L. 2023h. Oonops erinaceus Benoit, 1977, a junior synonym of Triaeris stenaspis Simon, 1892 (Araneae: Oonopidae). Zootaxa 45297(2): 291–293. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.45297.2.8. . Reference page. 

2024

• Henrard, A., Griswold, C.E. & Jocqué, R. 2024. On new genera and species of crack-leg spiders (Araneae, Udubidae) from Madagascar. European Journal of Taxonomy 966: 1–80. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.966.2697. . Reference page. 
• Pett, B.L., Pashkevich, M.D., Freeman, B., Timperley, J.H. & Jocqué, R. 2024. Four new species of Crinopseudoa (Araneae: Corinnidae) from West Africa. Zootaxa 5523(1): 070–082. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5523.1.4. . Reference page. 
• Vanuytven, H., Jocqué, R. & Deeleman-Reinhold, C.L. 2024. Two new theridiid genera from Southeast Asia (Araneae: Theridiidae, Argyrodinae): males with a nose for courtship. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 39(1, supplement): 1-96. Reference page. 
• Jocqué, R. & Henrard, A. 2024. A revision of Afrotropical Asceua (Araneae, Zodariidae), ant-eating spiders with puzzling distributions. African Invertebrates 65(2): 161–198. DOI: 10.3897/afrinvertebr.65.138029 . Reference page. 

2025

• Vanuytven, H., Jocqué, R. & Deeleman-Reinhold, C.L. 2025. Spiders resembling worms: notes on Ariamnes Thorell, 1869 (Araneae: Theridiidae) with the description of a new species from Papua New Guinea and the female of A. petilus Gao & Li, 2014. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 39(2, 2024): 132-147. [publ. end of Jan. 2025]. Reference page.