Quamtana Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Pholcidae |
Genus: | Quamtana Huber, 2003[1] |
Type species | |
Q. merwei Huber, 2003
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Species | |
26, see text |
Quamtana is a genus of African cellar spiders that was first described by B. A. Huber in 2003.[2]
Species
[edit]As of June 2019[update] it contains twenty-six species, found only in Africa:[1]
- Quamtana biena Huber, 2003 – Congo
- Quamtana bonamanzi Huber, 2003 – South Africa
- Quamtana ciliata (Lawrence, 1938) – South Africa
- Quamtana embuleni Huber, 2003 – South Africa
- Quamtana entabeni Huber, 2003 – South Africa
- Quamtana filmeri Huber, 2003 – South Africa, Lesotho
- Quamtana hectori Huber, 2003 – South Africa
- Quamtana kabale Huber, 2003 – Uganda
- Quamtana kitahurira Huber, 2003 – Guinea, Angola, Uganda, Burundi, Congo
- Quamtana knysna Huber, 2003 – South Africa
- Quamtana lajuma Huber, 2003 – South Africa
- Quamtana leleupi Huber, 2003 – South Africa
- Quamtana leptopholcica (Strand, 1909) – South Africa
- Quamtana lotzi Huber, 2003 – South Africa
- Quamtana mabusai Huber, 2003 – South Africa, Swaziland
- Quamtana mbaba Huber, 2003 – South Africa
- Quamtana merwei Huber, 2003 (type) – South Africa
- Quamtana meyeri Huber, 2003 – South Africa
- Quamtana molimo Huber, 2003 – Lesotho
- Quamtana nandi Huber, 2003 – South Africa
- Quamtana nyahururu Huber & Warui, 2012 – Kenya, Tanzania
- Quamtana nylsvley Huber, 2003 – South Africa
- Quamtana oku Huber, 2003 – Cameroon
- Quamtana tsui Huber, 2003 – South Africa
- Quamtana umzinto Huber, 2003 – South Africa
- Quamtana vidal Huber, 2003 – South Africa
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Quamtana Huber, 2003". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- ^ Huber, B. A. (2003). "Southern African pholcid spiders: revision and cladistic analysis of Quamtana gen. nov. and Spermophora Hentz (Araneae: Pholcidae), with notes on male-female covariation". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 139: 477–527. doi:10.1046/j.0024-4082.2003.00082.x.