Buitinga

Buitinga is a genus of African cellar spiders that was first described by B. A. Huber in 2003.

Buitinga
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Pholcidae
Genus:	Buitinga Huber, 2003
Type species
B. kadogo Huber, 2003
Species
22, see text

Species

As of June 2019 it contains twenty-two species, found only in Africa:

• 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 ifrit Huber & Cazanove, 2023 – Réunion
• 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

• List of Pholcidae species