Ricinoides
| Ricinoides | |
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| Male Ricinoides karschii from Cameroon | |
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| Ricinoides atewa nymph from Ghana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Ricinulei |
| Family: | Ricinoididae |
| Genus: | Ricinoides Ewing, 1929 |
| Type species | |
| Ricinoides westermannii (Guérin-Méneville, 1838) | |
| Species | |
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16, see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Ricinoides is an arthropod genus in the family Ricinoididae, first described by Henry Ewing in 1929.[2]
Distribution
[edit]Species in this genus are found in West Africa.
Species
[edit]As of October 2022[update] it contains sixteen species:[3]
- Ricinoides afzelii (Thorell, 1892) — Ghana, Guinea, Sierra Leone
- Ricinoides atewa Naskrecki, 2008 — Ghana
- Ricinoides crassipalpe (Hansen & Sørensen, 1904) — Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea
- Ricinoides eburneus Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Côte d’Ivoire
- Ricinoides feae (Hansen, 1921) — Guinea, Guinea-Bissau
- Ricinoides hanseni Legg, 1976 — Sierra Leone
- Ricinoides iita Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Nigeria
- Ricinoides kakum Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Ghana
- Ricinoides karschii (Hansen & Sørensen, 1904) — Cameroon, Congo, Gabon
- Ricinoides leonensis Legg, 1978 — Sierra Leone
- Ricinoides megahanseni Legg, 1982 — Côte d’Ivoire
- Ricinoides nzerekorensis Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Guinea
- Ricinoides olounoua Legg, 1978 — Cameroon
- Ricinoides sjostedtii (Hansen & Sørensen, 1904) — Cameroon, Nigeria
- Ricinoides taii Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Côte d’Ivoire
- Ricinoides westermannii (Guérin-Méneville, 1838) — Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo
In 2026, it was proposed that several species attributed to Ricinoides should be split out into several newly described genera, giving the new combinations Alantakun karschii, Bambara hanseni, Bambara megahanseni, Gizoo crassipalpe, Tautau leonensis, and Ududo sjostedtii.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ Hansen, Hans; Sörensen, William (1904). On two orders of Arachnida. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- ↑ Ewing, Henry (1929). "A synopsis of the American arachnids of the primitive order Ricinulei". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 22 (4): 583–600. doi:10.1093/aesa/22.4.583.
- ↑ "Ricinoides Ewing, 1929". World Ricinulei Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
- ↑ Botero-Trujillo, Ricardo; Prendini, Lorenzo (2026-02-26). "Phylogeny and Revised Generic Classification of African Ricinulei (Ricinoididae), Descriptions of Five New Genera, Three New Species, and Comparative Morphology of the Male Copulatory Apparatus". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 2026 (480). doi:10.1206/0003-0090.480.1.1. ISSN 0003-0090.