Afrilobus is a genus of African araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by C. E. Griswold & Norman I. Platnick in 1987.[2] As of June 2019[update] it contains only three species, found only in Africa and South Africa: A. australis, A. capensis, and A. jocquei.[1]
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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: | Orsolobidae |
| Genus: | Afrilobus Griswold & Platnick, 1987[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. capensis Griswold & Platnick, 1987
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Afrilobus Griswold & Platnick, 1987". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
- ^ Griswold, C. E.; Platnick, N. I. (1987). "On the first African spiders of the family Orsolobidae (Araneae, Dysderidae)". American Museum Novitates (2892): 1–14.
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