Stegodyphus

Stegodyphus is a genus of velvet spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1873. They are distributed from Africa to Europe and Asia, with one species (S. manaus) found in Brazil. The name is derived from Ancient Greek (stegos), meaning "covered".

At least three species are social spiders, and several are known to use ballooning as a method of dispersal.

Species

since May 2019Template:Dated maintenance category (articles) it contains twenty species:

• Stegodyphus africanus (Blackwall, 1866) – Africa
• Stegodyphus bicolor (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) – Southern Africa
• Stegodyphus dufouri (Audouin, 1826) – North, West Africa
• Stegodyphus dumicola Pocock, 1898 – Central, Southern Africa
• Stegodyphus hildebrandti (Karsch, 1878) – Central, East Africa, Zanzibar
• Stegodyphus hisarensis Arora & Monga, 1992 – India
• Stegodyphus lineatus (Latreille, 1817) (type) – Southern Europe, North Africa to Tajikistan
• Stegodyphus lineifrons Pocock, 1898 – East Africa
• Stegodyphus manaus Kraus & Kraus, 1992 – Brazil
• Stegodyphus manicatus Simon, 1876 – North, West Africa
• Stegodyphus mimosarum Pavesi, 1883 – Africa, Madagascar
• Stegodyphus mirandus Pocock, 1899 – India
• Stegodyphus nathistmus Kraus & Kraus, 1989 – Morocco to Yemen
• Stegodyphus pacificus Pocock, 1900 – Jordan, Iran, Pakistan, India
• Stegodyphus sabulosus Tullgren, 1910 – East, Southern Africa
• Stegodyphus sarasinorum Karsch, 1892 – India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar
• Stegodyphus simplicifrons Simon, 1906 – Madagascar
• Stegodyphus tentoriicola Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
• Stegodyphus tibialis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) – India, Myanmar, Thailand, China
• Stegodyphus tingelin Kraus & Kraus, 1989 – Cameroon

• The community nesting spider, S. dumicola Kruger National Park
  The community nesting spider, S. dumicola
  Kruger National Park
• Nest of S. dumicola KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  Nest of S. dumicola
  KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa