Brancus

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Brancus
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Brancus
Simon, 1902[1]
Type species

Simon, 1902
Species

16, see text

Brancus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.[2]

Species[]

As of June 2019 it contains sixteen species, found only in Africa, Sri Lanka, and India:[1]

  • (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Guinea, Nigeria
  • Simon, 1902 – West Africa
  • Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2018 – India, Sri Lanka
  • (Simon, 1903) – West Africa
  • Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
  • Brancus lacrimosus Wesolowska & Edwards, 2012 – Nigeria
  • (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Ivory Coast, Nigeria
  • (Simon, 1902) – East, Southern Africa
  • Simon, 1902 (type) – Central, West, Southern Africa
  • Brancus nigeriensis Wesolowska & Edwards, 2012 – Nigeria
  • (Simon, 1902) – West Africa
  • Brancus occidentalis Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2011 – Nigeria
  • (Lessert, 1927) – Guinea, Nigeria, Congo
  • Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
  • Brancus signatus Dawidowicz & Wesolowska, 2016 – Kenya
  • Berland & Millot, 1941 – Guinea

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Gen. Brancus Simon, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. ^ Simon, E. (1902). "Etudes arachnologiques. 31e Mémoire. LI. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 71: 389–421.


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