Buckspoor Spiders
Seothyra
Seothyra, commonly known as the buck spoor spiders, buckspoor spiders or just spoor spiders, belong to a sand-dwelling, burrowing genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Eresidae. The 13 species are endemic to the arid, sandy flats and semistabilized red dunes of southern Africa. They are sexually dimorphic. The tiny males, which are seldom seen, imitate sugar ants or velvet ants in their appearance and habits, while the females hide in and hunt from their characteristic...
13 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Common Buckspoor Spider
speciesSeothyra fasciata
Buckspoor Spider
speciesSeothyra schreineri
Seothyra longipedata
speciesSeothyra longipedata
Seothyra henscheli
speciesSeothyra henscheli
Seothyra neseri
speciesSeothyra neseri
Louw's Buckspoor Spider
speciesSeothyra louwi
Seothyra griffinae
speciesSeothyra griffinae
Seothyra barnardi
speciesSeothyra barnardi
Seothyra dorstlandica
speciesSeothyra dorstlandica
Seothyra annettae
speciesSeothyra annettae
Seothyra roshensis
speciesSeothyra roshensis
Seothyra perelegans
speciesSeothyra perelegans
Seothyra semicoccinea
speciesSeothyra semicoccinea
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 120320.