Brachyphaea
| Brachyphaea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Corinnidae |
| Genus: | Brachyphaea Simon, 1895[1] |
| Type species | |
| B. simoni Simon, 1895
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| Species | |
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7, see text | |
Brachyphaea is a genus of African corinnid sac spiders first described by W. Bösenberg & Heinrich Lenz in 1895.[2]
Species
[edit]As of April 2019[update] it contains seven species:[1]
- Brachyphaea berlandi Lessert, 1915 – East Africa
- Brachyphaea castanea Simon, 1896 – Tanzania (Zanzibar)
- Brachyphaea hulli Lessert, 1921 – East Africa
- Brachyphaea proxima Lessert, 1921 – East Africa
- Brachyphaea simoni Simon, 1895 (type) – East Africa
- Brachyphaea simpliciaculeata Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
- Brachyphaea vulpina Simon, 1896 – Mozambique
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Brachyphaea Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
- ^ Bösenberg, W.; Lenz, H. (1895). "Ostafrikanische Spinnen gesammelt von Herrn Dr. F. Stuhlmann in den Jahren 1888 und 1889". Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten. 12 (2): 27–51.