Bursellia
| Bursellia | |
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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: | Linyphiidae |
| Genus: | Bursellia Holm, 1962[1] |
| Type species | |
| B. glabra Holm, 1962
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| Species | |
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Bursellia is a genus of African dwarf spiders that was first described by Å. Holm in 1962.[2]
Species
[edit]As of May 2019[update] it contains eight species and one subspecies:[1]
- Bursellia cameroonensis Bosmans & Jocqué, 1983 – Cameroon
- Bursellia comata Holm, 1962 – Congo, Uganda
- Bursellia c. kivuensis Holm, 1964 – Congo
- Bursellia gibbicervix (Denis, 1962) – Tanzania
- Bursellia glabra Holm, 1962 (type) – Congo, Kenya
- Bursellia holmi Bosmans, 1977 – Kenya
- Bursellia paghi Jocqué & Scharff, 1986 – Tanzania
- Bursellia setifera (Denis, 1962) – Cameroon, Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi
- Bursellia unicornis Bosmans, 1988 – Cameroon
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Bursellia Holm, 1962". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
- ^ Holm, Å. (1962). "The spider fauna of the East African mountains. Part I: Fam. Erigonidae". Zoologiska Bidrag från Uppsala. 35: 19–204.