Biology:Bunyoronius
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Bunyoronius is a monotypic genus of spiders in the family Corinnidae containing the single species, Bunyoronius femoralis.[1]
Distribution
Bunyoronius femoralis has been recorded from the Central African Republic, Uganda, and Rwanda.[1]
Etymology
The genus name is "a contraction of the words Bunyoro and [related genus] Carteronius, honoring the Bunyoro people, a pre-colonial Kingdom on the territory of modern Uganda, including the Budongo Forest, type locality of the type species."[2]
The specific name highlights the large male palpal apical retrolateral femoral apophysis.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Bunyoronius Bonaldo, Ramírez & Haddad, 2022". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/6280. Retrieved 2025-10-26.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bonaldo, A. B.; Bosselaers, J. (2022). "Switching identities: a revision of the Afrotropical spider genus Carteronius Simon, 1897 (Araneae, Corinnidae), senior synonym of Mandaneta Strand, 1932, with a new genus of the Pronophaea group". Zootaxa 5205 (4): 343–373. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5205.4.3. PMID 37045427. https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/183563.
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