Scharffia

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Scharffia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Cyatholipidae
Genus: Scharffia
Griswold, 1997 [1]
Type species
S. chinja
Griswold, 1997
Species

4, see text

Scharffia is a genus of East African araneomorph spiders in the family Cyatholipidae, and was first described by C. E. Griswold in 1997. [2]

Species

As of April 2019 it contains four species: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Scharffia Griswold, 1997". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-05-30.
  2. Griswold, C. E. (1997). "Scharffia, a remarkable new genus of spiders from East Africa (Araneae, Cyatholipidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 25: 269–287.