Gandanameno

Gandanameno is a genus of African velvet spiders that was first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2]

Gandanameno
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Eresidae
Genus: Gandanameno
Lehtinen, 1967[1]
Type species
G. spenceri
(Pocock, 1900)
Species

5, see text

Species

As of May 2019 it contains five species:[1]

  • Gandanameno echinata (Purcell, 1908) – Namibia
  • Gandanameno fumosa (C. L. Koch, 1837) – South Africa
  • Gandanameno inornata (Pocock, 1898) – Malawi
  • Gandanameno purcelli (Tucker, 1920) – South Africa
  • Gandanameno spenceri (Pocock, 1900) (type) – South Africa

References

  1. "Gen. Gandanameno Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
  2. Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 199–468.


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