Artoriellula bicolor
| Artoriellula bicolor | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Lycosidae |
| Genus: | Artoriellula |
| Species: | A. bicolor
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| Binomial name | |
| Artoriellula bicolor (Simon, 1898)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Artoriellula bicolor is a species of spider in the family Lycosidae.[1] It is endemic to South Africa.[2]
Distribution
Artoriellula bicolor is known from the Western Cape in South Africa, with the type locality given as "Cap der Guten Hoffnung" (Cape of Good Hope).[2]
Habitat
The species is a free-running ground dweller sampled from the Fynbos biome.[2]
Description
The species is known only from the female.[2]
The cephalothorax is red-brown, almost bald, without pale bands, with a black eye field.[3] The sternum is pale yellow and finely edged with sharp black. The chelicerae are rust yellow.[3]
The abdomen dorsally is shiny rusty yellow and only partially hairy, while ventrally it is pale yellow. The coxae and other leg segments are pale yellow, not darker, but the anterior legs are black except for the pale tarsi.[3]
Conservation
Artoriellula bicolor is listed as Data Deficient for Taxonomic reasons by the South African National Biodiversity Institute. Additional sampling is needed to collect the male and determine the species' range.[2]
Taxonomy
The species was originally described by Eugène Simon in 1898 as Artoria bicolor.[4] Roewer revised the species in 1960.[3] The holotype is housed at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, France, with a paratype at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Artoriellula bicolor (Simon, 1898)". World Spider Catalog. World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
- ^ a b c d e Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S.; Haddad, C.R.; Foord, S.H.; Lotz, L.N. (2021). The Lycosidae of South Africa. Version 1: part 1 (A-H). South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide. p. 37. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6324709. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
- ^ a b c d Roewer, C.F. (1960). "Araneae Lycosaeformia II (Lycosidae) (Fortsetzung und Schluss)". Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba, Mission G. F. de Witte. 55: 519–1040.
- ^ Simon, E. (1898). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux des familles des Agelenidae, Pisauridae, Lycosidae et Oxyopidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 42: 5–34.