Aneplasa

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Aneplasa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Genus:Aneplasa
Tucker, 1923 [1]
Type species
A. balnearia
Tucker, 1923
Species

8, see text

Aneplasa is a genus of African ground spiders that was first described by R. W. E. Tucker in 1923, [2] but might actually be a junior synonym of Nomisia . [3]

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<i>Nomisia</i> Genus of spiders

Nomisia is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by R. de Dalmas in 1921.

Species

As of May 2019 it contains eight species found in South Africa, East Africa, or Angola: [1]

Type species term used in zoological nomenclature (also non-officially in botanical nomenclature)

In zoological nomenclature, a type species is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen(s). A similar concept is used for suprageneric groups called a type genus.

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Allothele is a genus of African curtain web spiders that was first described by R. W. E. Tucker in 1920.

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Ibala is a genus of African ground spiders that was first described by M. J. FitzPatrick in 2009.

Leptodrassus is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1878.

Megamyrmaekion is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by A. Reuss in 1834.

Trephopoda is a genus of African ground spiders that was first described by R. W. E. Tucker in 1923.

Trichothyse is a genus of African ground spiders that was first described by R. W. E. Tucker in 1923.

Xerophaeus is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by William Frederick Purcell in 1907.

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Jocquestus is a genus of African araneomorph spiders in the Trachelidae family, first described by R. Lyle & C. R. Haddad in 2018.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Aneplasa Tucker, 1923". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  2. ↑ Tucker, R. W. E. (1923). "The Drassidae of South Africa". Annals of the South African Museum. 19: 251–437.
  3. ↑ Murphy, J. (2007). "Gnaphosid genera of the world". British Arachnological Society, St Neots, Cambridgeshire: 34.


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