Clarifying the taxonomic status and distributions of the spider species collected during the Leonhard Schultze expeditions in western and central southern Africa (Arachnida: Araneae) Author Haddad, Charles R. Author Marusik, Yuri M. text Zootaxa 2019 2019-05-21 4608 3 451 483 journal article 26739 10.11646/zootaxa.4608.3.3 dfb77857-812f-454f-9a70-18f9e3552267 1175-5326 3066772 0BF3BCE7-169A-4004-9471-0F70DE4548FA CYRTAUCHENIIDAE Ancylotrypa elongata Purcell, 1908: 211 [D] Localities in Purcell (1908) and countries: Kooa, Kalahari, Bechuanaland Protectorate [Bot]. Distribution in WSC: Bot, Nam. *Actual current distribution: Bot. Recent taxonomic treatment: Zonstein et al. (2018). Remarks: The record from Namibia from the Central Kalahari region presented by Griffin & Dippenaar-Schoeman (1991) and included in the WSC probably resulted from the earlier distribution of the species presented in the catalogue of Roewer (1942) as “Kalahari”. During the recent redescription of the species (Zonstein et al. 2018), the type specimen and a second series of specimens from Lotlhake Pan east of Tshane both originate from Botswana . Further, all of the records from the Kalahari included in the papers of Purcell (1908) and Simon (1910) are in the Botswanan part of this desert ( Fig. 1 ). It is therefore possible that the species has not been recorded from Namibia before, at least not in the form of published taxonomic records. Pelmatorycter namaquensis Purcell, 1908: 209 [D] [= Ancylotrypa namaquensis (Purcell, 1908) ] Localities in Purcell (1908) and countries: Steinkopf, Little Namaqualand [ RSA ]. Distribution in WSC (correct): RSA . Recent taxonomic treatment: Tucker (1917). Pelmatorycter schultzei Purcell, 1908: 210 [D] [= Ancylotrypa schultzei (Purcell, 1908) ] Localities in Purcell (1908) and countries: Kubub, Great Namaqualand [Nam]. Distribution in WSC (correct): Nam. Recent taxonomic treatment: Not redescribed.