Jocquestus is a genus of African araneomorph spiders in the family Trachelidae, first described by R. Lyle & C. R. Haddad in 2018.[2]

Jocquestus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Trachelidae
Genus: Jocquestus
Lyle & Haddad, 2018[1]
Type species
J. schenkeli (Lessert, 1923)
Species

7, see text

Species

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As of April 2019 it contains seven species:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Jocquestus Lyle & Haddad, 2018". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  2. ^ Lyle, R.; Haddad, C. R. (2018). "Jocquestus, a new genus of trachelid sac spiders from the Afrotropical Region (Arachnida: Araneae)". Zootaxa. 4471 (2): 309–333. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4471.2.4. PMID 30313406. S2CID 52976571.