Mystaria (spider)

Mystaria is a genus of African crab spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895.[2]

Mystaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Mystaria
Simon, 1895[1]
Type species
M. rufolimbata Simon, 1895
Species

15, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Paramystaria

Species

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

  • Mystaria budongo Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda
  • Mystaria decorata (Lessert, 1919) — East Africa
  • Mystaria flavoguttata (Lawrence, 1952) — Congo, South Africa
  • Mystaria irmatrix Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — Mozambique, South Africa
  • Mystaria lata (Lawrence, 1927) — Namibia, South Africa
  • Mystaria lindaicapensis Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — South Africa
  • Mystaria mnyama Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — South Africa
  • Mystaria occidentalis (Millot, 1942) — Guinea, Cameroon, Congo, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda
  • Mystaria oreadae Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — Rwanda, Congo
  • Mystaria rufolimbata Simon, 1895 — Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Congo, Gabon, Mozambique, South Africa
  • Mystaria savannensis Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa
  • Mystaria soleil Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — Uganda, Kenya
  • Mystaria stakesbyi Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — Congo, Liberia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
  • Mystaria variabilis (Lessert, 1919) — Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda
    • Mystaria v. delesserti (Caporiacco, 1949) — Kenya

References

  1. "Gen. Mystaria Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
  2. Simon, E. (1895). Histoire naturelle des araignées. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.

"Mystaria" at the Encyclopedia of Life


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