Biology:Aneplasa

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Aneplasa
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Genus: Aneplasa
Tucker, 1923[1]
Type species
A. balnearia
Tucker, 1923
Species

8, see text

Aneplasa is a genus of African ground spiders that was first described by R. W. E. Tucker in 1923,[2] but might actually be a junior synonym of Nomisia.[3]

Species

(As of May 2019) it contains eight species found in South Africa, East Africa, or Angola:[1]

  • Aneplasa balnearia Tucker, 1923 (type) – South Africa
  • Aneplasa borlei Lessert, 1933 – Angola
  • Aneplasa facies Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
  • Aneplasa interrogationis Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
  • Aneplasa nigra Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
  • Aneplasa primaris Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
  • Aneplasa sculpturata Tucker, 1923 – South Africa
  • Aneplasa strandi Caporiacco, 1947 – East Africa

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Aneplasa Tucker, 1923. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/895. Retrieved 2019-06-04. 
  2. Tucker, R. W. E. (1923). "The Drassidae of South Africa.". Annals of the South African Museum 19: 251–437. 
  3. Murphy, J. (2007). Gnaphosid genera of the world. British Arachnological Society, St Neots, Cambridgeshire. p. 34. 

Wikidata ☰ Q1863690 entry