Asemesthes is a genus of African ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1887.[2]

Asemesthes
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Genus: Asemesthes
Simon, 1887[1]
Type species
A. subnubilus
Simon, 1887
Species

26, see text

Species

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As of May 2019 it contains twenty-six species, all from South Africa, Namibia, Ethiopia, or Angola:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Asemesthes Simon, 1887". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  2. ^ Simon, E. (1887). "Etudes arachnologiques. 20e Mémoire. XXVIII. Arachnides recueillis dans le sud de l'Afrique par M. le docteur Hans Schinz". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 7 (6): 369–384.