Moggridgea is a genus of spiders in the tree dwelling family, Migidae. The genus was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1875, who named the genus after naturalist John Traherne Moggridge.
| Moggridgea | |
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| Moggridgea sp. from South Africa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Migidae |
| Genus: | Moggridgea O. P-Cambridge, 1875 |
| Type species | |
| Moggridgea dyeri O. P-Cambridge, 1875
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| Species | |
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| Diversity | |
| 33 species | |
The majority of the 32 species of the genus are found in southern Africa and Socotra, with an outlying species in Australia's Kangaroo Island.
List of Moggridgea species
edit- 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 (Congo)
- Moggridgea crudeni Hewitt, 1913 (South Africa)
- Moggridgea dyeri O. P.-Cambridge, 1875 (South Africa)
- 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)
- Moggridgea mordax Purcell, 1903 (South Africa)
- Moggridgea nesiota Griswold, 1987 (Comoro Is.)
- Moggridgea occidua Simon, 1907 (Principe)
- 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 (Kangaroo Island, South Australia)
- Moggridgea rupicola Hewitt, 1913 (South Africa)
- Moggridgea rupicoloides Hewitt, 1914 (South Africa)
- Moggridgea socotra Griswold, 1987 (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)
References
edit- Platnick, Norman I. (2008): The world spider catalog, version 8.5. American Museum of Natural History.
- Main, B.Y. 1991. Occurrence of the trapdoor spider genus Moggridgea in Australia with descriptions of two new species (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Migidae). Journal of Natural History 25: 383-397 [385].
- Cambridge, O P- (1875). "On a new genus and species of trap-door spider from South Africa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 16: 317–322. doi:10.1080/00222937508681860.