Moggridgea
Genus of spiders
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moggridgea is a genus of spiders belonging to the tree-dwelling family, Migidae. The genus was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1875 and is named after the naturalist John Traherne Moggridge.
| Moggridgea | |
|---|---|
| |
| Moggridgea sp. from South Africa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Migidae |
| Genus: | Moggridgea O. P-Cambridge, 1875[1] |
| Type species | |
| Moggridgea dyeri O. P-Cambridge, 1875 | |
| Species | |
|
See text | |
| Diversity | |
| 33 species | |
The majority of the species of the genus are found in southern Africa and Socotra, with the outlying species Moggridgea rainbowi endemic to Kangaroo Island in Australia.[1]
Species
As of October 2025[update], this genus includes 32 species:[1]
- Moggridgea albimaculata Hewitt, 1925 – South Africa
- Moggridgea ampullata Griswold, 1987 – South Africa
- Moggridgea anactenidia Griswold, 1987 – Cameroon
- Moggridgea breyeri Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
- Moggridgea clypeostriata Benoit, 1962 – DR Congo
- Moggridgea crudeni Hewitt, 1913 – South Africa
- Moggridgea dyeri O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875 – South Africa (type species)
- Moggridgea eremicola Griswold, 1987 – Namibia
- Moggridgea intermedia Hewitt, 1913 – South Africa
- Moggridgea leipoldti Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
- Moggridgea loistata Griswold, 1987 – South Africa
- Moggridgea microps Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa, Eswatini
- Moggridgea mordax Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
- Moggridgea nesiota Griswold, 1987 – Comoros
- Moggridgea occidua Simon, 1907 – São Tomé and Príncipe
- Moggridgea pallida Hewitt, 1914 – Namibia
- Moggridgea paucispina Hewitt, 1916 – South Africa
- Moggridgea peringueyi Simon, 1903 – South Africa
- Moggridgea pseudocrudeni Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
- Moggridgea purpurea Lawrence, 1928 – Namibia
- Moggridgea pymi Hewitt, 1914 – Zimbabwe, South Africa
- Moggridgea quercina Simon, 1903 – South Africa
- Moggridgea rainbowi (Pulleine, 1919) – Australia (South Australia)
- Moggridgea rupicola Hewitt, 1913 – South Africa
- Moggridgea rupicoloides Hewitt, 1914 – South Africa
- Moggridgea socotra Griswold, 1987 – Yemen (Socotra)
- Moggridgea tanypalpa Griswold, 1987 – Angola
- Moggridgea teresae Griswold, 1987 – South Africa
- Moggridgea terrestris Hewitt, 1914 – South Africa
- Moggridgea terricola Simon, 1903 – South Africa
- Moggridgea verruculata Griswold, 1987 – Congo
- Moggridgea whytei Pocock, 1897 – Central Africa
