Arushina is a monotypic genus of East African corinnid sac spiders containing the single species, Arushina dentichelis. It was first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1947,[2] and has only been found in Tanzania.[1] Originally placed with the Dictynidae,[2] it was moved to the Ant spiders in 1967,[3] to the Sac spiders in 1991,[4] then to the Corrinid sac spiders in 2000.[5]

Arushina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Corinnidae
Genus: Arushina
Caporiacco, 1947[1]
Species:
A. dentichelis
Binomial name
Arushina dentichelis

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Arushina Caporiacco, 1947". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
  2. ^ a b Caporiacco, L. di (1947). "Arachnida Africae Orientalis, a dominibus Kittenberger, Kovács et Bornemisza lecta, in Museo Nationali Hungarico servata". Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici. 40: 97–257.
  3. ^ Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 216.
  4. ^ Jocqué, R. (1991). "A generic revision of the spider family Zodariidae (Araneae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 201: 8.
  5. ^ Bosselaers, J.; Jocqué, R. (2000). "Studies in Corinnidae: transfer of four genera and description of the female of Lessertina mutica Lawrence 1942". Tropical Zoology. 13: 313.