Scharffia, a remarkable new genus of spiders from east Africa (Araneae, Cyatholipidae)

Journal of Arachnology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 269-287

  Griswold, Charles E ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031283766     PISSN: 01618202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Brignoli, P.M. 1983. A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940-1981. Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 755 pp.
2. Cambridge, O.P. 1903. Descriptions of some new species and characters of three new genera of Araneoidea from South Africa. Annal. S. African Mus., 3:143-165.
3. Coddington, J.A. 1983. A temporary slide mount allowing precise manipulation of small structures. Verh. Naturwiss. Ver. Hamburg (NF), 26: 291-292.
4. Davies, V. Todd. 1978. A new family of spiders (Araneae: Teemenaaridae). Symp. Zool. Soc. London, 42:293-302.
5. Forster, R.R. 1988. Cyatholipidae. Pp. 7-34, In Spiders of New Zealand, vol. 6. Otago Mus. Bull.
6. Forster, R.R., N.I. Platnick & J.A. Coddington. 1990. A proposal and review of the spider family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), with notes on theridiid interrelationships. Bull. American Mus. Nat. Hist., 193:1-116.
7. Griswold, C.E. 1987. A review of the southern African spiders of the family Cyatholipidae Simon, 1894 (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Annal. Natal Mus., 28:499-542.
8. Griswold, C.E. 1990. A revision and phylogenetic analysis of the spider subfamily Phyxelidinae (Araneae, Amaurobiidae). Bull. American Mus. Nat. Hist., 196:1-206.
9. Griswold, C.E. 1991. Cladistic biogeography of Afromontane spiders. Australian Syst. Bot., 4: 73-89.
10. Griswold, C.E. 1997. The spider family Cyatholipidae in Madagascar (Araneae, Araneoidea). J. Arachnol., 25:53-83.
11. Griswold, C.E., J.A. Coddington, G. Hormiga & N. Scharff. In press. Phylogeny of the orb-web building spiders (Araneae, Orbiculariae: Deinopoidea, Araneoidea). Zool. J. Linn. Soc.
12. Platnick, N.I. 1979. [Review of] Arachnology. New York: Academic Press, 1978, Symp. Zool. Soc. London, 42 (P. Merrett, ed.). Academic Press, New York. Syst. Zool., 28:115-117.
13. Platnick, N.I. 1979. [Review of] Arachnology. New York: Academic Press, 1978, Symp. Zool. Soc. London, 42 (P. Merrett, ed.). Academic Press, New York. Syst. Zool., 28:115-117.
14. Platnick, N.I. 1989. Advances in spider taxonomy: a supplement to Brignoli's A Catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester, Manchester Univ. Press, 673 pp.
15. Platnick, N.I. 1993. Advances in spider taxonomy, 1988-1991: with synonymies and transfers 1940-1980. New York Entomol. Soc., 846 pp.
16. Rabinowitz, P.D., M.F. Coffin & D. Falvey. 1983. The separation of Madagascar and Africa. Science, 220:67-69.
17. Roewer, C.F. 1942. Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940. Bremen: Natura, 1:1-1040.
18. Scharff, N. 1992. The linyphiid fauna of eastern Africa (Araneae, Linyphiidae) -distributional patterns, diversity, and endemism. Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 45:117-154.
19. Scharff, N. 1993. The linyphiid spider fauna (Araneae: Linyphiidae) of mountain forests in the Eastern Arc mountains. Pp. 115-132, In Biogeography and ecology of the rain forests of eastern Africa. (J.C. Lovett & S.K. Wasser, eds.) Cambridge Univ. Press.
20. Simon, E. 1894. Histoire Naturelle des Araignées. 2nd ed. Paris: Roret, 1:489-760.
21. White, F. 1978. The Afromontane region. Pp. 132-143, In Biogeography and Ecology of Southern Africa. (M.J.A. Werger, ed.) Junk, The Hague.
22. Wunderlich, J. 1978. Zur Kenntnis der Cyatholipinae Simon 1894 (Arachnida: Araneida: ?Tetragnathidae). Zool. Beitr. 24:33-41.
23. Wunderlich, J. 1993. Die ersten fossilen Becherspinnen (Fam. Cyatholipidae) in Baltischem und Bitterfelder Bernstein (Arachnida: Araneae). Mitt. Geol.-Paláont. Inst. Univ. Hamburg, 75: 231-241.