Singafrotypa

Singafrotypa is a genus of African orb-weaver spiders first described by Pierre L.G. Benoit in 1962.[2]

Singafrotypa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Singafrotypa
Benoit, 1962[1]
Type species
S. acanthopus
(Simon, 1907)
Species

4, see text

Species

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

  • Singafrotypa acanthopus (Simon, 1907) (type) – Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), Congo
  • Singafrotypa mandela Kuntner & Hormiga, 2002 – South Africa
  • Singafrotypa okavango Kuntner & Hormiga, 2002 – Botswana
  • Singafrotypa subinermis (Caporiacco, 1940) – Ethiopia
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gollark: Or use some other magic thing to "see" inside them, if that counts.
gollark: Well, you can still heat up their outside bit. Or argue that you can see some parts of their body which shouldn't be filled with water. Or command their skeleton if they have an exposed broken bone somehow.
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References

  1. "Gen. Singafrotypa Benoit, 1962". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  2. Benoit, P. L. G. (1962). "Les Araneidae-Nephilinae africains". Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines. 65: 217–231.


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