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Pisauridae  Simon, 1890 / Rothus  Simon, 1898   1 species

Rothus aethiopicus (Pavesi, 1883)

Description
Distribution
  Presence
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Global distribution (WSC 2026): Cameroon, Ethiopia, DR Congo, Rwanda, Kenya, Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, Egypt, Israel
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Distribution List
Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2021) |||
References

Blandin P (1977) Etudes sur les Pisauridae africaines VIII. Les genres Chiasmopes Pavesi, 1883 et Rothus Simon, 1898 (Araneae - Pisauridae - Pisaurinae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 91: 538-557 pdf

El-Hennawy H K (2021) The first record of Rothus aethiopicus (Pavesi, 1883) (Araneae: Pisauridae) in Egypt and North Africa. Serket 18: 229-237 pdf

Levy G (1999a) The lynx and nursery-web spider families in Israel (Araneae, Oxyopidae and Pisauridae). Zoosystema 21: 29-64 pdf

Silva E L C da, Sierwald P (2015) First description of the male of Rothus vittatus Simon, 1898 (Araneae: Pisauridae), with a review of the African nursery web spider genus Rothus Simon, 1898. African Invertebrates 56: 325-341 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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