Afroneta
| Afroneta | |
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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: | Linyphiidae |
| Genus: | Afroneta Holm, 1968[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. immaculata Holm, 1968
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| Species | |
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Afroneta is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Å. Holm in 1968.[2]
Species
[edit]As of May 2019[update] it contained twenty-nine species:[1]
- Afroneta altivaga Holm, 1968 – Congo
- Afroneta annulata Merrett, 2004 – Congo
- Afroneta bamilekei Bosmans, 1988 – Cameroon
- Afroneta basilewskyi Holm, 1968 – Tanzania
- Afroneta blesti Merrett & Russell-Smith, 1996 – Ethiopia
- Afroneta elgonensis Merrett, 2004 – Kenya
- Afroneta erecta Merrett, 2004 – Congo
- Afroneta flavescens Frick & Scharff, 2018 – Kenya
- Afroneta fulva Merrett, 2004 – Congo
- Afroneta fusca Merrett, 2004 – Congo
- Afroneta guttata Holm, 1968 – Congo
- Afroneta immaculata Holm, 1968 (type) – Congo
- Afroneta immaculoides Merrett, 2004 – Congo
- Afroneta lativulva Merrett, 2004 – Congo
- Afroneta lobeliae Merrett, 2004 – Congo
- Afroneta longipalpis Ledoux & Attié, 2008 – Réunion
- Afroneta longispinosa Holm, 1968 – Congo
- Afroneta maculata Merrett, 2004 – Congo
- Afroneta millidgei Merrett & Russell-Smith, 1996 – Ethiopia
- Afroneta pallens Merrett, 2004 – Congo
- Afroneta picta Holm, 1968 – Congo
- Afroneta praticola Holm, 1968 – Tanzania
- Afroneta sarahae Frick & Scharff, 2018 – Kenya
- Afroneta serrata Frick & Scharff, 2018 – Kenya
- Afroneta snazelli Merrett & Russell-Smith, 1996 – Ethiopia
- Afroneta subfusca Holm, 1968 – Congo
- Afroneta subfuscoides Merrett, 2004 – Congo
- Afroneta tenuivulva Merrett, 2004 – Congo
- Afroneta tristis Merrett, 2004 – Congo
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Afroneta Holm, 1968". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
- ^ Holm, Å. (1968). "Spiders of the families Erigonidae and Linyphiidae from East and Central Africa". Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques. 171: 1–49.