Afrarchaea

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Afrarchaea
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Archaeidae
Genus: Afrarchaea
Forster & Platnick, 1984[1]
Type species
A. godfreyi
(Hewitt, 1919)
Species

14, see text

Afrarchaea is a genus of African assassin spiders first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1984.[2]

Species[]

As of April 2019 it contains fourteen species, all found in South Africa:[1]

  • Lotz, 2015 – South Africa
  • Lotz, 1996 – South Africa
  • (Lotz, 2003) – South Africa
  • Lotz, 2003 – South Africa
  • Lotz, 1996 – South Africa
  • Afrarchaea godfreyi (Hewitt, 1919) (type) – South Africa
  • Lotz, 2006 – South Africa
  • Lotz, 2003 – South Africa
  • Lotz, 1996 – South Africa
  • Lotz, 1996 – South Africa
  • Lotz, 2017 – South Africa
  • Lotz, 1996 – South Africa
  • Lotz, 2006 – South Africa
  • Lotz, 2006 – South Africa

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Gen. Afrarchaea Forster & Platnick, 1984". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  2. ^ Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I. (1984). "A review of the archaeid spiders and their relatives, with notes on the limits of the superfamily Palpimanoidea (Arachnida, Araneae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 178: 1–106.


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