Namaquarachne
Appearance
Namaquarachne | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Phyxelididae |
Genus: | Namaquarachne Griswold, 1990[1] |
Type species | |
N. khoikhoiana Griswold, 1990
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Species | |
5, see text |
Namaquarachne is a genus of South African araneomorph spiders in the family Phyxelididae, and was first described by C. E. Griswold in 1990.[2]
Species
[edit]As of June 2019[update] it contains five species, found only in South Africa:[1]
- Namaquarachne angulata Griswold, 1990 – South Africa
- Namaquarachne hottentotta (Pocock, 1900) – South Africa
- Namaquarachne khoikhoiana Griswold, 1990 (type) – South Africa
- Namaquarachne thaumatula Griswold, 1990 – South Africa
- Namaquarachne tropata Griswold, 1990 – South Africa
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Namaquarachne Griswold, 1990". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- ^ Griswold, C. E. (1990). "A revision and phylogenetic analysis of the spider subfamily Phyxelidinae (Araneae, Amaurobiidae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 196: 1–206.