Galeosoma

Galeosoma is a genus of African armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by William Frederick Purcell in 1903.^[2]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains twelve species and three subspecies:^[1]

Galeosoma coronatum Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
- Galeosoma c. sphaeroideum Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
Galeosoma crinitum Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
Galeosoma hirsutum Hewitt, 1916 – South Africa
Galeosoma mossambicum Hewitt, 1919 – Mozambique
Galeosoma pallidum Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
- Galeosoma p. pilosum Hewitt, 1916 – South Africa
Galeosoma planiscutatum Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
Galeosoma pluripunctatum Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
Galeosoma robertsi Hewitt, 1916 – South Africa
Galeosoma schreineri Hewitt, 1913 – South Africa
Galeosoma scutatum Purcell, 1903 (type) – South Africa
Galeosoma vandami Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
- Galeosoma v. circumjunctum Hewitt, 1919 – South Africa
Galeosoma vernayi Hewitt, 1935 – Botswana

^ ^a ^b "Gen. Galeosoma Purcell, 1903". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
^ Purcell, W. F. (1903). "New South African spiders of the families Migidae, Ctenizidae, Barychelidae Dipluridae, and Lycosidae". Annals of the South African Museum. 3: 69–142.

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