Buitinga
Appearance
Buitinga | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Pholcidae |
Genus: | Buitinga Huber, 2003[1] |
Type species | |
B. kadogo Huber, 2003
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Species | |
22, see text |
Buitinga is a genus of African cellar spiders that was first described by B. A. Huber in 2003.[2]
Species
As of June 2019[update] it contains twenty-two species, found only in Africa:[1]
- Buitinga amani Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
- Buitinga asax Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
- Buitinga batwa Huber & Warui, 2012 – Uganda
- Buitinga buhoma Huber, 2003 – Uganda
- Buitinga ensifera (Tullgren, 1910) – Tanzania
- Buitinga globosa (Tullgren, 1910) – Tanzania
- Buitinga griswoldi Huber, 2003 – Uganda
- Buitinga kadogo Huber, 2003 (type) – Tanzania
- Buitinga kanzuiri Huber, 2003 – Congo
- Buitinga kihanga Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
- Buitinga kikura Huber, 2003 – Congo
- Buitinga lakilingo Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
- Buitinga mazumbai Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
- Buitinga mbomole Huber, 2003 – Kenya, Tanzania
- Buitinga mulanje Huber, 2003 – Malawi
- Buitinga nigrescens (Berland, 1920) – Kenya, Tanzania
- Buitinga ruhiza Huber, 2003 – Uganda
- Buitinga ruwenzori Huber, 2003 – Congo, Uganda
- Buitinga safura Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
- Buitinga tingatingai Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
- Buitinga uzungwa Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
- Buitinga wataita Huber & Warui, 2012 – Kenya
See also
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Buitinga Huber, 2003". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
- ^ Huber, B. A. (2003). "High species diversity in one of the dominant groups of spiders in East African montane forests (Aranae: Pholcidae: Buitinga n. gen., Spermophora Hentz)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 137: 555–619.