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Published August 26, 2024 | Version v1
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Benoitia lepida

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Laboratoire de Valorisation et Conservation des Ecosystèmes Arides (LVCEA). Faculty of Natural, Life and Earth Sciences, University of Ghardaïa, BP 455, 47000 Ghardaïa, Algeria
  • 2. Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Ledeganckstraat 35, B- 9000 Gent, Belgium

Description

Benoitia lepida (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876)

Agelena lepida deserta; Denis 1945: 54; Denis 1954: 322.

Benoitia lepida; Alioua et al. 2016: 73; Boutmedjet et al. 2022: 103.

Material examined: DHAYET BENDHAHOUA: Grazil, hand collecting, 3 ♀, 5.II.2022. EL GUERRARA: Aghzou, hand collectinghand collecting, 1 ♂, 26.I.2020; 3 ♀, 8.II.2020; 2 ♂, 3 ♀, 15.II.2020; 1 ♂, 11.III.2020; 2 ♂, 17.III.2020 Pitfall traps, 1 ♂, 26.I.2020; 1 ♂, 22.II.2020; 1 ♂, 3.III.2020. El Amied, hand collecting, 3 ♀, 31.I.2020; 1 ♀, 12.III.2020; 1 ♀, 1.IV.2020, pitfall traps, 1 ♀, 17.III.2020. MANSOURA: Mansoura Kedima, pitfall traps, 1 ♂, 18.I.2015. SEBSEB: Oued Sebseb, hand collecting, 1 ♀, 7.III.2015.

Previous records in Algeria: Known only from the Saharan part of the country: Biskra, Ghardaïa, El Meniaâ, In Salah and Tamenghasset (Denis 1945; Denis 1954; Alioua et al. 2016; Boutmedjet et al. 2022).

Distribution: Spain, North Africa, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Yemen, Saudi-Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran (World Spider Catalog 2024).

Notes

Published as part of Alioua, Youcef & Bosmans, Robert, 2024, Spiders of arid lands: The Ghardaïa region (Northern Sahara) with seven new records for Algeria, pp. 301-336 in Zootaxa 5497 (3) on page 303, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13618579

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/29238793FFE35D4399A6FE981BC8A7FC

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.3.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/13618579 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/D51AFFEBFFE15D419931FB5B1A46A05D (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/DC876897-235D-4EAD-95BB-4C1921EEF227 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/29238793FFE35D4399A6FE981BC8A7FC (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/240057086 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/302049/taxon/29238793FFE35D4399A6FE981BC8A7FC.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
O. Pickard-Cambridge
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Agelenidae
Genus
Benoitia
Species
lepida
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Benoitia lepida (Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) sec. Alioua & Bosmans, 2024

References

  • Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1876) Catalogue of a collection of spiders made in Egypt, with descriptions of new species and characters of a new genus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 44 (3), 541 - 630. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1876. tb 02595. x
  • Denis, J. (1945) Descriptions d'araignees nord-africaines. Bulletin de la Societe d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse, 79 (1), 41 - 57.
  • Denis, J. (1954) Araignees recueillies par P. Remy du Sud-Algerien au Hoggar. Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France, 78, 311 - 324.
  • Alioua, Y., Bissati, S., Kherbouche, O. & Bosmans, R. (2016) Spiders of Sebkhet El Melah (Northern Sahara, Algeria): review and new records. Serket, 15 (1), 33 - 40.
  • Boutmedjet, A., Alioua, Y., Bouallala, M., Sadine, S. E. & Guezoul, O. (2022) First data on the diversity of the spider fauna of Kef Doukhane river (Ghardaia, Northern Algerian Sahara). Serket, 19 (1), 100 - 106.
  • World Spider Catalog (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, Bern. Available from: https: // wsc. nmbe. ch / (accessed 1 June 2024) https: // doi. org / 10.24436 / 2