Cambalida dippenaarae
species of arachnid
Cambalida dippenaarae is a species of spider in the family Corinnidae. It is distributed across several southern African countries and is commonly known as Dippenaar's Cambalida dark sac spider.
Etymology
The species is named after Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman, a prominent South African arachnologist who has made significant contributions to the study of southern African spiders.
Distribution
Cambalida dippenaarae is distributed across Zambia, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa. In South Africa, it is known from eight provinces at altitudes ranging from 3 to 1,560 m above sea level, including more than 10 protected areas.
Habitat and ecology
The species is a free-living ground-dweller. It is fairly common and collected by litter sifting and pitfall traps in forest and savanna habitats, and occasionally from the Grassland, Indian Ocean Coastal Belt and Nama Karoo biomes. The species has also been sampled from citrus and grapefruit orchards and cotton and maize fields.
Description
Cambalida dippenaarae is known from both sexes. The carapace is deep red-brown with black mottling, with the clypeus dark brown medially and yellow-brown laterally.
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