Afroceto

Afroceto
female A. martini
A. africana
Scientific classification
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)
Species
16, see text

Afroceto is a genus of African araneomorph spiders in the family Trachelidae, first described by R. Lyle & Charles R. Haddad in 2010. ^[2]

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  female A. martini
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  female A. martini
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  female A. martini
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  A. plana

Species

As of October 2025 ^[update] , this genus includes 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) – East, Southern Africa (type species)
• 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

1. "Gen. Afroceto Lyle & Haddad, 2010". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-10-16.
2. 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)" (PDF). African Invertebrates. 51 (2): 321–384. Bibcode:2010AfrIn..51..321L. doi: 10.5733/afin.051.0206 .

External links

• Citizen science observations for Afroceto at iNaturalist