Moggridgea

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
Type species
Moggridgea dyeri O. P-Cambridge, 1875
Species
See text
Diversity
33 species

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.

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[]

• Hewitt, 1925 (South Africa)
• Griswold, 1987 (South Africa)
• Griswold, 1987 (Cameroon)
• Hewitt, 1915 (South Africa)
• Benoit, 1962 (Congo)
• Hewitt, 1913 (South Africa)
• O. P.-Cambridge, 1875 (South Africa)
• Griswold, 1987 (Namibia)
• Hewitt, 1913 (South Africa)
• Purcell, 1903 (South Africa)
• Griswold, 1987 (South Africa)
• Hewitt, 1915 (South Africa)
• Purcell, 1903 (South Africa)
• Griswold, 1987 (Comoro Is.)
• Simon, 1907 (Principe)
• Hewitt, 1914 (Namibia)
• Hewitt, 1916 (South Africa)
• Simon, 1903 (South Africa)
• Hewitt, 1919 (South Africa)
• Lawrence, 1928 (Namibia)
• Hewitt, 1914 (Zimbabwe, South Africa)
• Simon, 1903 (South Africa)
• Moggridgea rainbowi Pulleine, 1919 (Kangaroo Island, South Australia)
• Hewitt, 1913 (South Africa)
• Hewitt, 1914 (South Africa)
• Griswold, 1987 (Socotra)
• Griswold, 1987 (Angola)
• Griswold, 1987 (South Africa)
• Moggridgea terrestris Hewitt, 1914 (South Africa)
• Simon, 1903 (South Africa)
• Griswold, 1987 (Congo)
• Pocock, 1897 (Central Africa)

References[]

• 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.

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