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| Scelidocteus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Palpimanidae |
| Genus: | Scelidocteus Simon, 1907[1] |
| Type species | |
| S. pachypus Simon, 1907 | |
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Scelidocteus is a genus of African palp-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1907.[2]
Species
[edit]As of June 2019[update] it contains seven species, found only in Africa:[1]
- Scelidocteus baccatus Simon, 1907 – São Tomé and Príncipe
- Scelidocteus berlandi Lessert, 1930 – Congo
- Scelidocteus lamottei Jézéquel, 1964 – Ivory Coast
- Scelidocteus ochreatus Simon, 1907 – Guinea-Bissau
- Scelidocteus pachypus Simon, 1907 (type) – West Africa
- Scelidocteus schoutedeni Benoit, 1974 – Congo
- Scelidocteus vuattouxi Jézéquel, 1964 – Ivory Coast
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Gen. Scelidocteus Simon, 1907". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
- ↑ Simon, E. (1907). "Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 1re partie". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 3 (3): 218–323.
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