Biology:Leroya

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Leroya
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Leroya
Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014[1]
Type species
L. silva Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014
Species
  • L. silva Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — Congo, Rwanda, Uganda
  • (Simon, 1895) — Sierra Leone, Congo, Ivory Coast L. unicolor

Leroya is a genus of African crab spiders first described by A. S. H. Lewis & A. S. Dippenaar-Schoeman in 2014.[2] (As of April 2019) it contains only two species.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Gen. Leroya Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/5450. Retrieved 2019-04-08. 
  2. Lewis, A. S. H.; Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (2014). "Revision of the spider genus Mystaria Simon, 1895 (Araneae: Thomisidae) and the description of a new genus from the Afrotropical region.". Zootaxa 3873 (2): 101–144. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3873.2.1. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q16964093 entry