Afrarchaea is a genus of African assassin spiders first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1984.[2]
| Afrarchaea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Archaeidae |
| Genus: | Afrarchaea Forster & Platnick, 1984[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. godfreyi (Hewitt, 1919)
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| Species | |
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14, see text | |
Species
editAs of April 2019[update] it contains fourteen species, all found in South Africa:[1]
- Afrarchaea ansieae Lotz, 2015 – South Africa
- Afrarchaea bergae Lotz, 1996 – South Africa
- Afrarchaea cornuta (Lotz, 2003) – South Africa
- Afrarchaea entabeniensis Lotz, 2003 – South Africa
- Afrarchaea fernkloofensis Lotz, 1996 – South Africa
- Afrarchaea godfreyi (Hewitt, 1919) (type) – South Africa
- Afrarchaea haddadi Lotz, 2006 – South Africa
- Afrarchaea harveyi Lotz, 2003 – South Africa
- Afrarchaea kranskopensis Lotz, 1996 – South Africa
- Afrarchaea lawrencei Lotz, 1996 – South Africa
- Afrarchaea neethlingi Lotz, 2017 – South Africa
- Afrarchaea ngomensis Lotz, 1996 – South Africa
- Afrarchaea royalensis Lotz, 2006 – South Africa
- Afrarchaea woodae Lotz, 2006 – South Africa
References
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Afrarchaea Forster & Platnick, 1984". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
- ^ Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I. (1984). "A review of the archaeid spiders and their relatives, with notes on the limits of the superfamily Palpimanoidea (Arachnida, Araneae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 178: 1–106.
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