Afrarchaea Explained

Afrarchaea is a genus of African assassin spiders first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1984.^[1]

Species

it contains fourteen species, all found in South Africa:^[2]

• Afrarchaea ansieae Lotz, 2015 – South Africa
• Afrarchaea bergae Lotz, 1996 – South Africa
• Afrarchaea cornuta (Lotz, 2003) – South Africa
• Afrarchaea entabeniensis Lotz, 2003 – South Africa
• Afrarchaea fernkloofensis Lotz, 1996 – South Africa
• Afrarchaea godfreyi (Hewitt, 1919) (type) – South Africa
• Afrarchaea haddadi Lotz, 2006 – South Africa
• Afrarchaea harveyi Lotz, 2003 – South Africa
• Afrarchaea kranskopensis Lotz, 1996 – South Africa
• Afrarchaea lawrencei Lotz, 1996 – South Africa
• Afrarchaea neethlingi Lotz, 2017 – South Africa
• Afrarchaea ngomensis Lotz, 1996 – South Africa
• Afrarchaea royalensis Lotz, 2006 – South Africa
• Afrarchaea woodae Lotz, 2006 – South Africa

Notes and References

1. Forster. R. R.. Platnick. N. I.. 1984. A review of the archaeid spiders and their relatives, with notes on the limits of the superfamily Palpimanoidea (Arachnida, Araneae).. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 1–106. 178.
2. Gen. Afrarchaea Forster & Platnick, 1984. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-15. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.