Levymanus is a genus of palp-footed spiders that was first described by S. Zonstein & Y. M. Marusik in 2013.[2] As of June 2019 it contains only two species, found in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Ethiopia: L. gershomi and L. ras.[1]

Levymanus
L. gershomi male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Palpimanidae
Genus: Levymanus
Zonstein & Marusik, 2013[1]
Type species
L. gershomi
Zonstein & Marusik, 2013
Species
  • L. gershomi Zonstein & Marusik, 2013 – Israel, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  • L. ras Zonstein, Marusik & Kovblyuk, 2017 – Ethiopia

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Levymanus Zonstein & Marusik, 2013". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. ^ Zonstein, S.; Marusik, Y. M. (2013). "On Levymanus, a remarkable new spider genus from Israel, with notes on the Chediminae (Araneae, Palpimanidae)". ZooKeys (326): 27–45. doi:10.3897/zookeys.326.5344. PMC 3764535. PMID 24039534.