Biology:Zeria

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Short description: Genus of camel spiders

Zeria
Zeria monteiri 46665.jpg
Zeria monteiri from Botswana
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Solifugae
Family: Solpugidae
Genus: Zeria
Simon, 1879
Type species
Zeria persephone
Simon, 1879
Species

60, see text

Zeria is a genus of solpugid camel spiders, first described by Eugène Simon in 1879.[1]

Species

(As of August 2023), the World Solifugae Catalog accepts the following sixty species:[2]


  • Zeria adunca (Roewer, 1933) — Namibia
  • Zeria albistriata (Roewer, 1933) — Tanzania
  • Zeria angolana (Frade, 1940) — Angola
  • Zeria antelopicornis (Lawrence, 1929) — South Africa
  • Zeria atra (Roewer, 1933) — Tanzania
  • Zeria atrisoma (Roewer, 1933) — Tanzania
  • Zeria boehmi (Kraepelin, 1899) — Congo
  • Zeria caffra (Pocock, 1897) — South Africa
  • Zeria capitulata (Karsch, 1885) — Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya
  • Zeria carli (Roewer, 1933) — South Africa
  • Zeria celeripes (Hirst, 1911) — South Africa, Zimbabwe
  • Zeria davidi (Schenkel, 1932) — Mozambique
  • Zeria farimia (Roewer, 1933) — Guinea-Bissau
  • Zeria ferox (Pocock, 1895) — South Africa
  • Zeria fordi (Hirst, 1907) — Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
  • Zeria funksoni (Birula, 1915) — Sudan
  • Zeria fusca (C.L. Koch, 1842) — South Africa
  • Zeria glabricornis (Lawrence, 1928) — Namibia
  • Zeria greta (Roewer, 1933) — Tanzania
  • Zeria incerta (Frade, 1940) — Angola
  • Zeria kapangana (Benoit, 1960) — Congo
  • Zeria keyserlingii (Pocock, 1895) — Cameroon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, Togo
  • Zeria kraepelini (Roewer, 1933) — Tanzania
  • Zeria langheldi (Roewer, 1933) — Namibia
  • Zeria lawrencei (Roewer, 1933) — Angola, Namibia
  • Zeria lethalis (C.L. Koch, 1842) — Namibia, South Africa
  • Zeria lobatula (Roewer, 1933) — Tanzania
  • Zeria loveridgei (Hewitt, 1925) — Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda
  • Zeria merope (Simon, 1879) — Kenya, Tanzania
  • Zeria meruensis (Tullgren, 1907) — Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania
  • Zeria monteiri (Pocock, 1895) — Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe
  • Zeria nasuta (Karsch, 1880) — Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
  • Zeria neumanni (Kraepelin, 1903) — Ethiopia
  • Zeria niassa (Karsch, 1880) — Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia
  • Zeria nigrescens (Pocock, 1895) — Kenya, Mozambique
  • Zeria obliqua (Roewer, 1933) — Namibia
  • Zeria obscura (Kraepelin, 1899) — Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania
  • Zeria orthoceras (Roewer, 1933) — Angola
  • Zeria paludicola (Pocock, 1895) — Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania
  • Zeria parkinsoni (Pocock, 1897) — Ethiopia, Somalia
  • Zeria persephone Simon, 1879 — Algeria, Morocco
  • Zeria recta (Hewitt, 1919) — Namibia
  • Zeria rhodesiana (Hirst, 1911) — Tanzania, Zimbabwe
  • Zeria sagittaria (Pocock, 1900) — Botswana, Zimbabwe
  • Zeria schlechteri (Purcell, 1899) — Namibia, South Africa
  • Zeria schoenlandi (Pocock, 1900) — Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe
  • Zeria schoutedeni (Roewer, 1954) — Congo
  • Zeria schweinfurthi (Karsch, 1880) — South Sudan
  • Zeria sericea (Pocock, 1897) — Angola, Congo, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe
  • Zeria serraticornis (Purcell, 1899) — Congo, Ethiopia, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe
  • Zeria spiralicornis (Purcell, 1903) — South Africa, Zimbabwe
  • Zeria strepsiceros (Kraepelin, 1899) — Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe
  • Zeria striata (Kraepelin, 1914) — Namibia
  • Zeria sulfuripilosa (Roewer, 1933) — Kenya
  • Zeria toppini (Hirst, 1916) — South Africa
  • Zeria umbonata (Roewer, 1933) — Namibia
  • Zeria vansoni (Lawrence, 1935) — Zimbabwe
  • Zeria venator (Pocock, 1897) — Angola, Namibia, South Africa
  • Zeria wabonica (Roewer, 1933) — Kenya
  • Zeria zebrina (Pocock, 1898) — Kenya, Tanzania


References

  1. E., Simon (1879). "Essai d’une classification des Galéodes, remarques synonymiques et description d’espèces nouvelles ou mal connues". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 9 (5): 93-154. 
  2. "Zeria Simon, 1879". Natural History Museum Bern. 2023. https://wac.nmbe.ch/order/solifugae/species/816. 

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