Mystaria (spider)
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| Mystaria | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Thomisidae |
| Genus: | Mystaria Simon, 1895[1] |
| Type species | |
| M. rufolimbata Simon, 1895 | |
| Species | |
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15, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Mystaria is a genus of African crab spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895.[2]
Species
[edit]As of April 2019[update] it contains fifteen species:[1]
- Mystaria budongo Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda
- Mystaria decorata (Lessert, 1919) — East Africa
- Mystaria flavoguttata (Lawrence, 1952) — Congo, South Africa
- Mystaria irmatrix Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — Mozambique, South Africa
- Mystaria lata (Lawrence, 1927) — Namibia, South Africa
- Mystaria lindaicapensis Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — South Africa
- Mystaria mnyama Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — South Africa
- Mystaria occidentalis (Millot, 1942) — Guinea, Cameroon, Congo, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda
- Mystaria oreadae Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — Rwanda, Congo
- Mystaria rufolimbata Simon, 1895 — Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Congo, Gabon, Mozambique, South Africa
- Mystaria savannensis Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa
- Mystaria soleil Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — Uganda, Kenya
- Mystaria stakesbyi Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — Congo, Liberia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
- Mystaria variabilis (Lessert, 1919) — Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda
- Mystaria v. delesserti (Caporiacco, 1949) — Kenya
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Gen. Mystaria Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
- ^ Simon, E. (1895). Histoire naturelle des araignées. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
External links
[edit]"Mystaria" at the Encyclopedia of Life