Species list, Checklist of Family Sparassidae (Giant crab spiders) for Gauteng (Republic South Africa)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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Checklist for Family Sparassidae Bertkau, 1872 (Giant crab spiders)
and region Gauteng (Republic South Africa)

Class	Arachnida Lamarck, 1801 Arachnids	89 277 185	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Micrura Ehrenberg, 1831	74 255 157	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Megoperculata Börner, 1902	48 219 126	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Araneae Clerck, 1757 Spider, Spiders, True Spiders	48 219 126	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Araneomorphae Smith, 1902 True Spiders	39 199 113	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Araneomorphi Smith, 1902	39 199 113	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Sparassoidea Bertkau, 1872	1 5 3	Family Genera Species	Taxom
Family	Sparassidae Bertkau, 1872 Giant crab spiders, Huntsman spiders, Huntsmans	5 3	Genera Species	Taxom

Genera for Gauteng
5 Genera with 3 Species

Eusparassus Simon, 2013		1	Species	Taxom
Heteropoda Latreille, 1767		1	Species	Taxom
Olios Walckenaer, 1837		0	Species	Taxom
Palystes L. Koch, 1875	Lizard-eating spiders	1	Species	Taxom
Pseudomicrommata Järvi, 1914		0	Species	Taxom

Species list for Gauteng
3 Species

Eusparassus jaegeri Moradmand, 2013
Heteropoda venatoria (Linnaeus, 1767)	⇒ Heteropoda simplex Jäger & Ono, 2000
Palystes superciliosus Koch, 1875	Common rain spider

Subnodes of Sparassidae with occurrences in Gauteng

Subfamily	Heteropodinae Thorell, 1873	1 1	Genus Species	Taxom
Subfamily	Palystinae Simon, 1897	1 1	Genus Species	Taxom
Subfamily	Sparassinae Bertkau, 1872	3 1	Genera Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

Sparassidae at artfakta.se
Sparassidae at biodiversity.org.au
Sparassidae at dyntaxa.se
Sparassidae at gbif.org
Sparassidae at irmng.org
Sparassidae at itis.gov