Arushina
| Arushina | |
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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: | Corinnidae |
| Genus: | Arushina Caporiacco, 1947[1] |
| Species: | A. dentichelis
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| Binomial name | |
| Arushina dentichelis Caporiacco, 1947
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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]
References[edit]
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Jocqué, R. (1991). "A generic revision of the spider family Zodariidae (Araneae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 201: 8.
- ^ 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.