Afrilobus

Afrilobus is a genus of African araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by C. E. Griswold & Norman I. Platnick in 1987.[2] As of June 2019 it contains only three species, found only in Africa and South Africa: A. australis, A. capensis, and A. jocquei.[1]

Afrilobus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Orsolobidae
Genus: Afrilobus
Griswold & Platnick, 1987[1]
Type species
A. capensis
Griswold & Platnick, 1987
Species
  • A. australis Griswold & Platnick, 1987 – South Africa
  • A. capensis Griswold & Platnick, 1987 – South Africa
  • A. jocquei Griswold & Platnick, 1987 – Malawi

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Afrilobus Griswold & Platnick, 1987". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. Griswold, C. E.; Platnick, N. I. (1987). "On the first African spiders of the family Orsolobidae (Araneae, Dysderidae)". American Museum Novitates. 2892: 1–14.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.