Afroceto

Afroceto
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Trachelidae
Genus:
Lyle & Haddad, 2010[1]
Type species
A. martini
(Simon, 1897)
Species

16, see text

Afroceto is a genus of African araneomorph spiders in the family Trachelidae, first described by R. Lyle & C. R. Haddad in 2010.[2]

Species

As of April 2019 it contains sixteen species:[1]

  • Afroceto africana (Simon, 1910) – Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho
  • Afroceto ansieae Lyle, 2015 – South Africa
  • Afroceto bisulca Lyle & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa
  • Afroceto bulla Lyle & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa
  • Afroceto capensis Lyle & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa
  • Afroceto coenosa (Simon, 1897) – South Africa
  • Afroceto corcula Lyle & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa
  • Afroceto croeseri Lyle & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa
  • Afroceto dippenaarae Lyle, 2015 – South Africa
  • Afroceto flabella Lyle & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa
  • Afroceto gracilis Lyle & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa
  • Afroceto martini (Simon, 1897) (type) – East, Southern Africa
  • Afroceto plana Lyle & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa, Malawi
  • Afroceto porrecta Lyle & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa
  • Afroceto rotunda Lyle & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa
  • Afroceto spicula Lyle & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa

References

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Afroceto Lyle & Haddad, 2010". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
  2. ^ Lyle, R.; Haddad, C. R. (2010). "A revision of the tracheline sac spider genus Cetonana Strand, 1929 in the Afrotropical region, with descriptions of two new genera (Araneae: Corinnidae)" (PDF). African Invertebrates. 51 (2): 321–384. Bibcode:2010AfrIn..51..321L. doi:10.5733/afin.051.0206.

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