Charminus

Charminus is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1899.[2]

Charminus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pisauridae
Genus: Charminus
Thorell, 1899[1]
Type species
C. camerunensis
Thorell, 1899
Species

9, see text

Species

As of June 2019 it contains nine species and one subspecies, found only in Africa:[1]

  • Charminus aethiopicus (Caporiacco, 1939) – Ethiopia, Kenya
  • Charminus ambiguus (Lessert, 1925) – East, Southern Africa
    • Charminus a. concolor (Caporiacco, 1947) – East Africa
  • Charminus atomarius (Lawrence, 1942) – Central, East, Southern Africa
  • Charminus bifidus Blandin, 1978 – Rwanda
  • Charminus camerunensis Thorell, 1899 (type) – West, Central Africa
  • Charminus marfieldi (Roewer, 1955) – West, Central Africa
  • Charminus minor (Lessert, 1928) – Ivory Coast, Congo
  • Charminus natalensis (Lawrence, 1947) – South Africa
  • Charminus rotundus Blandin, 1978 – Congo

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Charminus Thorell, 1899". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. Thorell, T. (1899). "Araneae Camerunenses (Africae occidentalis) quas anno 1891 collegerunt Cel. Dr Y. Sjöstedt aliique". Bihang till Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar. 25 (1): 1–105.


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