Stasimopus schoenlandi

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Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Chelicerata
Class:Arachnida
Order:Araneae
Stasimopus schoenlandi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Stasimopidae
Genus: Stasimopus
Species:
S. schoenlandi
Binomial name
Stasimopus schoenlandi
Pocock, 1900[1]
Synonyms
  • Stasimopus schönlandi Pocock, 1900
  • Stasimopus rufitarsis Strand, 1907 (provisional name)

Stasimopus schoenlandi is a species of spider in the family Stasimopidae from South Africa.[2] This species occurs syntopically with S. mandelai and a number of other mygalomorph spiders at the Great Fish River Nature Reserve.[3]

Stasimopus schoenlandi is endemic to South Africa. The species occurs in the Eastern Cape province at multiple localities including Grahamstown, Jansenville, Brak Kloof, Atherstone Station, Somerset East, Middledrift, Middleton, Kamacks road near Uitenhage, Port Elizabeth, and Debe Neck.[4]

Habitat and ecology

The species is a ground dweller that lives in silk-lined burrows closed with a cork-lid trapdoor. The species has been sampled from the Fynbos, Nama Karoo, Savanna and Thicket biomes at altitudes between 7-737 m above sea level.[4]

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