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Anelasmocephalus Simon, 1879 is a genus of trogulids withy 13 Palearctic species, concentrated around the Mediterranean.
Synonymy[]
- Anelasma Sørensen 1873: 519 [praeocc.] [type species: Anelasma lycosinum Sørensen, 1873, by subsequent designation of Thorell (1876: 468)].
- Anelasmocephalus Simon 1879b: 297 [valid replacement name for Anelasma Sørensen, 1873]; Spoek 1963: 9; Martens, 1978; Brignoli & Raffaelli 1978: 90; Schönhofer 2013: 49.
- Rhexana Sørensen 1879: 124 (superfluous replacement name).
Etymology[]
Anelasma from Greek αν- (absence) + έλασμα (metal plate; flat end of a probe). Gender neuter. Anelasmocephalus from Greek αν- (absence) + έλασμα (metal plate; flat end of a probe) + κεφαλή (head). Gender masculine.
Placement[]
Anelasma originally in Trogulini (then equivalent to today’s Dyspnoi).
Species[]
- Anelasmocephalus balearicus Martens & Chemini, 1988
- Anelasmocephalus brignolii Martens & Chemini, 1988
- Anelasmocephalus calcaneatus Martens & Chemini, 1988
- Anelasmocephalus cambridgei (Westwood, 1874)
- Anelasmocephalus cazorla Prieto & Las Heras, 2020
- Anelasmocephalus crassipes (Lucas, 1846)
- Anelasmocephalus gadirrif Prieto & Las Heras, 2020
- Anelasmocephalus hadzii Martens, 1978
- Anelasmocephalus lycosinus (Sørensen, 1873) [type by subsequent designation (Thorell 1876:468)]
- Anelasmocephalus ortunioi Prieto & Las Heras, 2020
- Anelasmocephalus osellai Martens & Chemini, 1988
- Anelasmocephalus pusillus Simon, 1879
- Anelasmocephalus pyrenaicus Martens, 1978
- Anelasmocephalus rufitarsis Simon, 1879
- Anelasmocephalus tenuiglandis Martens & Chemini, 1988
- Anelasmocephalus tuscus Martens & Chemini, 1988
Distribution[]
The genus is sympatrid with Trogulus l.s.; in Europe reaches Britain (only part of England), the Netherlands, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, seems to lack in Poland and much of the Danube-Balkan region. It is not clear whether it is present in the Iberian Peninsula, it is known from North Africa (Brignoli & Raffaelli 1978).