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: 336;
<bibRefCitation pageId="78" pageNumber="79">1892</bibRefCitation>
: 253;
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: 265. Type species
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Latreille, 1817.
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Lehtinen, 1967: 246. Synonymy in
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.
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<paragraph pageId="78" pageNumber="79">Note.</paragraph>
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With the transfer of
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to the genus
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gen. n., the genus
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contains 20 recognized species from Africa, southern Europe and Asia, plus a single species from Brazil (
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). The genus
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was
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to accommodate
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Purcell, 1904 and
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Pocock, 1898, both of which have a bifurcated conductor including a hook-shaped sclerotized branch (
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: figs 245, 248).
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rejected this genus on the grounds that it would require dividing
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sensu lato into at least three genera, which they considered needless. Molecular analyses have corroborated the monophyly of
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sensu lato and nested taxa representing
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<pageBreakToken pageId="80" pageNumber="81" start="start">within</pageBreakToken>
(not sister to) a monophyletic
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(
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;
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). We therefore concur with
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in treating
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as a subjective junior synonym of
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.
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We studied specimens representing three
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selected to cover a wide range of the variation present in the genus. Our exemplars were
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, the type species for the genus, based on specimens from Afghanistan, Israel, and Turkey,
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based on specimens from Madagascar and Malawi, and
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based on specimens from Myanmar. Our identification was based on the revision of
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; we did not seek to examine type material.
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<paragraph pageId="80" pageNumber="81">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="80" pageNumber="81">
Distinguished from other eresids except
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sp. n. by the median eye group, which has large, subequal eyes (AME/PME&gt; 0.6) with clear separation on the horizontal axis and significant overlap on the vertical axis (Fig. 11A, C, E, G, I, K); distinguished from
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sp. n. by the long, acute clypeal hood (short, slightly obtuse in
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sp. n., Fig. 70I). Classically diagnosed by having the PER noticeably more narrow (65-90%) than the AER (
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;
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); however,
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, and some
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and
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species approach or even overlap with some
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species. Further distinguished from other eresids except
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,
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, and some
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by the advanced position of the PLE (&lt;0.29;&gt; 0.31 in other eresids).
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<paragraph pageId="80" pageNumber="81">Distinguishing species.</paragraph>
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Therevisionary monograph by
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remains the key resource for identifying
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species.
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divided
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into three species groups, each with one non-territorial permanently social species. In a molecular phylogenetic study,
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suggested that
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is distinctive enough to warrant its own monotypic species group, but otherwise their findings were congruent with the earlier morphological study of
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and Kraus (1988)
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and supported the hypothesis that sociality in
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has been independently derived multiple times. The
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group contains seven species including our exemplar, the social species
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. Males of the
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group have the palpal conductor as a distally-projecting complex comprising an outer leaf and a longer, less sclerotized, inner leaf. The embolic division is longer than the tegular division. The epigynum has the posterior part of median lobe raised,
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, and wider than long. The median eyes in both sexes are relatively heterogenous (AME/PME ca. 0.6-0.8; data from
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). The
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group contains four or five species (depending on whether
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and
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are considered distinct) including our exemplar, the social species
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. Males of the
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group have a spiral conductor that lacks a free inner leaf and is shorter than the tegular division. The median eyes in both sexes are relatively homogenous (AME/PME usually ca. 0.7-1.0, rarely ca. 0.6; data from
<bibRefCitation author="Kraus, O" journalOrPublisher="Verhandlungen naturwissenschaften vereins Hamburg (NF)" pageId="94" pageNumber="95" pagination="151 - 254" title="The genus Stegodyphus (Arachnida, Araneae). Sibling species, species groups, and parallel origins of social living." volume="30" year="1988">Kraus and Kraus 1988</bibRefCitation>
). The
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group contains six species including our exemplar,
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, the type species of the genus (but see
<bibRefCitation author="Johannesen, J" journalOrPublisher="Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B" pageId="94" pageNumber="95" pagination="231 - 237" title="The age and evolution of sociality in Stegodyphus spiders: a molecular phylogenetic perspective." url="10.1098/rspb.2006.3699" volume="274" year="2007">Johannesen et al. 2007</bibRefCitation>
). Males of the
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group have complex conductors with a membranous inner lobe similar to that found in the
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group, although it is characteristically more spiral (as opposed to distally-projecting) and the embolic division is shorter than the tegular division. In some species (
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and
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), a sclerotized hook-like apophysis arises from the inner lobe of the conductor. The median eyes in both sexes are relatively homogenous (AME/PME ca. 0.8-0.9) except in
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(AME/PME ca. 0.5-0.6; data from
<bibRefCitation author="Kraus, O" journalOrPublisher="Verhandlungen naturwissenschaften vereins Hamburg (NF)" pageId="94" pageNumber="95" pagination="151 - 254" title="The genus Stegodyphus (Arachnida, Araneae). Sibling species, species groups, and parallel origins of social living." volume="30" year="1988">Kraus and Kraus 1988</bibRefCitation>
). The epigynum of some
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group species is more or less rotated into vertical position (
<bibRefCitation author="Kraus, O" journalOrPublisher="Verhandlungen naturwissenschaften vereins Hamburg (NF)" pageId="94" pageNumber="95" pagination="151 - 254" title="The genus Stegodyphus (Arachnida, Araneae). Sibling species, species groups, and parallel origins of social living." volume="30" year="1988">Kraus and Kraus 1988</bibRefCitation>
).
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="82" pageNumber="83" type="natural history">
<paragraph pageId="82" pageNumber="83">Natural history.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="82" pageNumber="83">
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are known from a variety of warm, dry habitats and include both solitary and social species. The solitary species make webs with a central, funnel-like retreat and an irregular cribellate mass appressed to the substrate or multiple cribellate sheets in different planes on which they walk. The social species make a large nest of silk, plant debris and chitinous remains of their insect prey, and large sheets of cribellate silk may extend out in several directions (Fig. 4
<normalizedToken originalValue="JL">J-L</normalizedToken>
). The spiders walk upon or hang beneath these sheets. The cribellate silk carding leg is braced with a mobile leg IV, and the margins of the cribellate band are entire (
<bibRefCitation author="Griswold, CE" journalOrPublisher="Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences" pageId="94" pageNumber="95" pagination="1 - 324" title="Atlas of phylogenetic data for entelegyne spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae: Entelegynae) with comments on their phylogeny." volume="56" year="2005">Griswold et al. 2005</bibRefCitation>
). We have never observed them to wrap captured prey. The fine structure of the cribellate silk of
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Eresidae" genus="Stegodyphus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Stegodyphus" order="Araneae" pageId="82" pageNumber="83" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Stegodyphus</taxonomicName>
was studied by
<bibRefCitation pageId="82" pageNumber="83">Kullmann (1975)</bibRefCitation>
who recorded both axial fibers and reserve warp and noted that the cribellar fibrils are cylindrical in cross section. Prey include a variety of arthropods (
<bibRefCitation author="Dewar, M" journalOrPublisher="American Zoologist" pageId="93" pageNumber="94" pagination="476 - 477" title="Behaviour of South African social spiders: prey capture." volume="10" year="1970">Dewar and Koopowitz 1970</bibRefCitation>
); social spiders hunting cooperatively are more effective than solitary hunters (
<bibRefCitation author="Ward, PI" journalOrPublisher="Behaviour" pageId="96" pageNumber="97" pagination="167 - 182" title="Conflict and cooperation in the group feeding of the social spider Stegodyphus mimosarum." url="10.1163/156853985X00325" volume="94" year="1985">Ward and Enders 1985</bibRefCitation>
). Juveniles feed on the bodies of dead females (Fig. 3D), which may or may not be their mother in social species (
<bibRefCitation author="Schneider, J" journalOrPublisher="Animal Behaviour" pageId="95" pageNumber="96" pagination="649 - 658" title="The effect of reproductive state on care-giving in Stegodyphus (Araneae: Eresidae) and the implications on the evolution of sociality." url="10.1006/anbe.2001.1961" volume="63" year="2002">Schneider 2002</bibRefCitation>
). The sex ratio is female biased (more than 4:1) in social species (
<bibRefCitation pageId="82" pageNumber="83">
<normalizedToken originalValue="Avilés">Aviles</normalizedToken>
1997
</bibRefCitation>
). Social colonies last for 7-8 years. Mating in many species occurs in
<normalizedToken originalValue="DecemberFebruary">December-February</normalizedToken>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Kraus, O" journalOrPublisher="Verhandlungen naturwissenschaften vereins Hamburg (NF)" pageId="94" pageNumber="95" pagination="151 - 254" title="The genus Stegodyphus (Arachnida, Araneae). Sibling species, species groups, and parallel origins of social living." volume="30" year="1988">Kraus and Kraus 1988</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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