Gandanameno

Gandanameno
female G. purcelli
male G. spenceri
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

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

Species

• 
  G. fumosa
• 
  female G. purcelli
• 
  probably G. spenceri

As of September 2025 ^[update] it contains five species: ^[1]

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

References

1. "Gen. Gandanameno Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-09-21.
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.