Biology:Ricinoides

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Short description: Genus of spider-like animals

Ricinoides
Ricinulei from Fernandez & Giribet, male Ricinoides karschii from Campo Reserve, Cameroon (2015) (cropped).jpg
Male Ricinoides karschii from Cameroon
Ricinulei from Fernandez & Giribet, nymph of Ricinoides atewa (2015) (cropped).jpg
Ricinoides atewa nymph from Ghana
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Ricinulei
Family: Ricinoididae
Genus: Ricinoides
Ewing, 1929
Type species
Ricinoides westermannii
(Guérin-Méneville, 1838)
Species

16, see text

Synonyms
  • Cryptostemma Guérin-Méneville, 1838[1]

Ricinoides is an arthropod genus in the family Ricinoididae, first described by Henry Ewing in 1929.[2]

Distribution

Species in this genus are found in West Africa.

Species

(As of October 2022) 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

References

  1. Hansen, Hans; Sörensen, William (1904). On two orders of Arachnida. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge. 
  2. 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. 
  3. Ricinoides Ewing, 1929. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. https://wac.nmbe.ch/order/ricinulei/species/870. Retrieved 4 October 2022. 

Wikidata ☰ Q2480951 entry