Buitinga

Buitinga is a genus of African cellar spiders that was first described by B. A. Huber in 2003.[2]

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

22, see text

Species

As of June 2019 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 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

References

  1. "Gen. Buitinga Huber, 2003". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. 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: 555–619.


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