Biology:Afromarengo
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Short description: Genus of spiders
| Afromarengo | |
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| Male Afromarengo sp. in Gabon | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Afromarengo Benjamin, 2004[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. coriacea (Simon, 1900)
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Afromarengo is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by S. P. Benjamin in 2004.[2] The name is derived from "Africa" and the genus Marengo. The genus Indomarengo is similarly named.
Species
(As of June 2019) it contained four species, found only in Africa:[1]
- Afromarengo bimaculata (Peckham & Peckham, 1903) – South Africa
- Afromarengo coriacea (Simon, 1900) (type) – Central, East, Southern Africa
- Afromarengo lyrifera (Wanless, 1978) – Angola, Tanzania
- Afromarengo plana Haddad & Wesolowska, 2013 – South Africa
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gen. Afromarengo Benjamin, 2004. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2479. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- ↑ Benjamin, S. P. (2004). "Taxonomic revision and phylogenetic hypothesis for the jumping spider subfamily Ballinae (Araneae, Salticidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 142: 1–82. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00123.x. https://cloudfront.escholarship.org/dist/prd/content/qt5x19n4mz/qt5x19n4mz.pdf.
Wikidata ☰ Q1935836 entry
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