Afroceto is a genus of African araneomorph spiders in the family Trachelidae, first described by R. Lyle & C. R. Haddad in 2010.[2]
| Afroceto | |
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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: | Trachelidae |
| Genus: | Afroceto Lyle & Haddad, 2010[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. martini (Simon, 1897)
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| Species | |
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16, see text | |
Species
editAs of April 2019[update] it contains sixteen species:[1]
- Afroceto africana (Simon, 1910) – Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho
- Afroceto ansieae Lyle, 2015 – South Africa
- Afroceto bisulca Lyle & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa
- Afroceto bulla Lyle & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa
- Afroceto capensis Lyle & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa
- Afroceto coenosa (Simon, 1897) – South Africa
- Afroceto corcula Lyle & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa
- Afroceto croeseri Lyle & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa
- Afroceto dippenaarae Lyle, 2015 – South Africa
- Afroceto flabella Lyle & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa
- Afroceto gracilis Lyle & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa
- Afroceto martini (Simon, 1897) (type) – East, Southern Africa
- Afroceto plana Lyle & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa, Malawi
- Afroceto porrecta Lyle & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa
- Afroceto rotunda Lyle & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa
- Afroceto spicula Lyle & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa
References
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Afroceto Lyle & Haddad, 2010". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
- ^ Lyle, R.; Haddad, C. R. (2010). "A revision of the tracheline sac spider genus Cetonana Strand, 1929 in the Afrotropical region, with descriptions of two new genera (Araneae: Corinnidae)". African Invertebrates. 51 (2): 321–384. doi:10.5733/afin.051.0206.
External links
edit"Afroceto" at the Encyclopedia of Life