Buitinga
| Buitinga | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Pholcidae |
| Genus: | Buitinga Huber, 2003[1] |
| Type species | |
| B. kadogo Huber, 2003 | |
| Species | |
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22, see text | |
Buitinga is a genus of African cellar spiders that was first described by B. A. Huber in 2003.[2]
Species
[edit]As of June 2019[update] it contains twenty-two species, found only in Africa:[1]
- Buitinga amani Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
- Buitinga asax Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
- Buitinga batwa Huber & Warui, 2012 – Uganda
- Buitinga buhoma Huber, 2003 – Uganda
- Buitinga ensifera (Tullgren, 1910) – Tanzania
- Buitinga globosa (Tullgren, 1910) – Tanzania
- Buitinga griswoldi Huber, 2003 – Uganda
- Buitinga ifrit Huber & Cazanove, 2023 – Réunion
- Buitinga kadogo Huber, 2003 (type) – Tanzania
- Buitinga kanzuiri Huber, 2003 – Congo
- Buitinga kihanga Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
- Buitinga kikura Huber, 2003 – Congo
- Buitinga lakilingo Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
- Buitinga mazumbai Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
- Buitinga mbomole Huber, 2003 – Kenya, Tanzania
- Buitinga mulanje Huber, 2003 – Malawi
- Buitinga nigrescens (Berland, 1920) – Kenya, Tanzania
- Buitinga ruhiza Huber, 2003 – Uganda
- Buitinga ruwenzori Huber, 2003 – Congo, Uganda
- Buitinga safura Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
- Buitinga tingatingai Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
- Buitinga uzungwa Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
- Buitinga wataita Huber & Warui, 2012 – Kenya
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 "Gen. Buitinga Huber, 2003". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
- ↑ Huber, B. A. (2003). "High species diversity in one of the dominant groups of spiders in East African montane forests (Aranae: Pholcidae: Buitinga n. gen., Spermophora Hentz)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 137 (4): 555–619. doi:10.1046/j.1096-3642.2003.00053.x.
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