Vidole (spider)
Appearance
Vidole | |
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Vidole capensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Phyxelididae |
Genus: | Vidole Lehtinen, 1967[1] |
Type species | |
V. capensis (Pocock, 1900)
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Species | |
5, see text |
Vidole is a genus of African araneomorph spiders in the family Phyxelididae, and was first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2]
Species
[edit]As of June 2019[update] it contains five species, found only in Lesotho and South Africa:[1]
- Vidole capensis (Pocock, 1900) (type) – South Africa
- Vidole helicigyna Griswold, 1990 – South Africa
- Vidole lyra Griswold, 1990 – South Africa
- Vidole schreineri (Purcell, 1904) – South Africa
- Vidole sothoana Griswold, 1990 – Lesotho, South Africa
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Vidole Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- ^ Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 199–468.