Afromarengo
Afromarengo | |
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Male Afromarengo sp. in Gabon | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Subfamily: | Salticinae |
Genus: | Afromarengo Benjamin, 2004[1] |
Type species | |
(Simon, 1900)
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Species | |
4, see text |
Afromarengo is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by S. P. Benjamin in 2004.[2] The name is derived from "Africa" and the genus Marengo. The genus Indomarengo is similarly named.
Species[]
As of June 2019 it contains four species, found only in Africa:[1]
- (Peckham & Peckham, 1903) – South Africa
- (Simon, 1900) (type) – Central, East, Southern Africa
- (Wanless, 1978) – Angola, Tanzania
- Afromarengo plana Haddad & Wesolowska, 2013 – South Africa
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Gen. Afromarengo Benjamin, 2004". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- ^ Benjamin, S. P. (2004). "Taxonomic revision and phylogenetic hypothesis for the jumping spider subfamily Ballinae (Araneae, Salticidae)" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 142: 1–82. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00123.x.
Categories:
- Salticidae
- Salticidae genera
- Spiders of Africa
- Salticidae stubs