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Moggridgea Terrestris
''Moggridgea terrestris'' is a spider species in the genus ''Moggridgea''. It is found in South Africa. See also * List of Migidae species This page lists all described species of the spider family Migidae accepted by the World Spider Catalog : B ''Bertmainius'' '' Bertmainius'' Harvey, Main, Rix & Cooper, 2015 * '' B. colonus'' Harvey, Main, Rix & Cooper, 2015 — Australia (West ... References {{Taxonbar, from=Q4177702 Endemic spiders of South Africa Migidae Spiders of South Africa Spiders described in 1914 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hewitt (herpetologist)
John Hewitt (23 December 1880 – 4 August 1961) was a South African zoologist and archaeologist of British origin. He was born in Dronfield, Derbyshire, England, and died in Grahamstown, South Africa. He was the author of several herpetological papers which described new species. He also described new species of spiders and other arachnids. Biography He graduated with a first-class in natural sciences from Jesus College, Cambridge in 1903. From 1905 to 1908 he was Curator of the Sarawak Museum in Kuching, Sarawak. In 1909 he went to South Africa to work as an assistant curator at the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria. In 1910 he was appointed Director of the Albany Museum in Grahamstown, eventually retiring in 1958.Deacon HJ, Deacon J (1999)''Human Beginnings in South Africa: Uncovering the Secrets of the Stone Age.''Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira Press. viii + 215 pp. His daughter, Florence Ellen Hewitt (1910–1979), was a teacher and phycologist. He was a founder mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1914 In Science
The year 1914 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy and space exploration * Sinope, the outermost known moon of Jupiter, is discovered by Seth Barnes Nicholson at Lick Observatory. * A 76 cm refracting telescope is built at Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the fifth largest refractor in the world. * Robert Goddard begins building rockets. * Walter Sydney Adams determines an incredibly high density for Sirius B. Biology and medicine * March 27 – Belgian surgeon Albert Hustin makes the first successful non-direct blood transfusion, using anticoagulants. * August 1 – Swiss National Park (''Parc Naziunal Svizzer'') established in the Engadin region of Switzerland. * September 1 – Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, dies, in the Cincinnati Zoo. * November 6 – Jacques Loeb publishes a paper on artificial parthenogenesis in sea urchins. * November 26 – Karl von Frisch publishes his first signi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spider
Spiders ( order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all orders of organisms. Spiders are found worldwide on every continent except for Antarctica, and have become established in nearly every land habitat. , 50,356 spider species in 132 families have been recorded by taxonomists. However, there has been debate among scientists about how families should be classified, with over 20 different classifications proposed since 1900. Anatomically, spiders (as with all arachnids) differ from other arthropods in that the usual body segments are fused into two tagmata, the cephalothorax or prosoma, and the opisthosoma, or abdomen, and joined by a small, cylindrical pedicel, however, as there is currently neither paleontological nor embryological evidence that spiders ever had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moggridgea
''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 * '' 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 A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini. It also completely enclaves the country Lesotho. It is the southernmost country on the mainland of the Old World, and the second-most populous country located entirely south of the equator, after Tanzania. South Africa is a biodiversity hotspot, with unique biomes, plant and animal life. With over 60 million people, the country is the world's 24th-most populous nation and covers an area of . South Africa has three capital cities, with the executive, judicial and legislative branches of government based in Pretoria, Bloemfontein, and Cape Town respectively. The largest city is Johannesburg. About 80% of the population are Black South Afri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Migidae Species
This page lists all described species of the spider family Migidae accepted by the World Spider Catalog : B ''Bertmainius'' '' Bertmainius'' Harvey, Main, Rix & Cooper, 2015 * '' B. colonus'' Harvey, Main, Rix & Cooper, 2015 — Australia (Western Australia) * '' B. monachus'' Harvey, Main, Rix & Cooper, 2015 — Australia (Western Australia) * '' B. mysticus'' Harvey, Main, Rix & Cooper, 2015 — Australia (Western Australia) * '' B. opimus'' Harvey, Main, Rix & Cooper, 2015 — Australia (Western Australia) * '' B. pandus'' Harvey, Main, Rix & Cooper, 2015 — Australia (Western Australia) * '' B. tingle'' (Main, 1991) ( type) — Australia (Western Australia) * '' B. tumidus'' Harvey, Main, Rix & Cooper, 2015 — Australia (Western Australia) C ''Calathotarsus'' '' Calathotarsus'' Simon, 1903 * '' C. coronatus'' Simon, 1903 ( type) — Chile * '' C. fangioi'' Ferretti, Soresi, González & Arnedo, 2019 — Argentina * '' C. pihuychen'' Goloboff, 1991 — Chile * '' C. simoni' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemic Spiders Of South Africa
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example '' Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. '' Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Migidae
Migidae, also known as tree trapdoor spiders, is a family of spiders with about 100 species in eleven genera. They are small to large spiders with little to no hair and build burrows with a trapdoor. Some species live in tree fern stems. They have a Gondwanan distribution, found almost exclusively on the Southern Hemisphere, occurring in South America, Africa, Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. Genera , the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera: *''Bertmainius'' Harvey, Main, Rix & Cooper, 2015 — Australia *''Calathotarsus'' Simon, 1903 — Chile, Argentina *''Goloboffia'' Griswold & Ledford, 2001 — Chile *'' Heteromigas'' Hogg, 1902 — Australia *'' Mallecomigas'' Goloboff & Platnick, 1987 — Chile *''Micromesomma'' Pocock, 1895 — Madagascar *''Migas'' L. Koch, 1873 — New Zealand, Australia *''Moggridgea'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875 — Africa, Australia, Yemen *''Paramigas'' Pocock, 1895 — Madagascar *''Poecilomigas'' Simon, 1903 — ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spiders Of South Africa
Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all orders of organisms. Spiders are found worldwide on every continent except for Antarctica, and have become established in nearly every land habitat. , 50,356 spider species in 132 families have been recorded by taxonomists. However, there has been debate among scientists about how families should be classified, with over 20 different classifications proposed since 1900. Anatomically, spiders (as with all arachnids) differ from other arthropods in that the usual body segments are fused into two tagmata, the cephalothorax or prosoma, and the opisthosoma, or abdomen, and joined by a small, cylindrical pedicel, however, as there is currently neither paleontological nor embryological evidence that spiders ever had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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