Biology:Maypacius

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Maypacius
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pisauridae
Genus: Maypacius
Simon, 1898[1]
Type species
M. bilineatus
(Pavesi, 1895)
Species

9, see text

Maypacius is a genus of African nursery web spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898.[2]

Species

(As of June 2019) it contains nine species, found only in Africa:[1]

  • Maypacius bilineatus (Pavesi, 1895) (type) – Central, East Africa, Madagascar
  • Maypacius christophei Blandin, 1975 – Congo
  • Maypacius curiosus Blandin, 1975 – Congo
  • Maypacius gilloni Blandin, 1978 – Senegal
  • Maypacius kaestneri Roewer, 1955 – West, Central Africa
  • Maypacius petrunkevitchi Lessert, 1933 – Angola, Rwanda
  • Maypacius roeweri Blandin, 1975 – Congo
  • Maypacius stuhlmanni (Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895) – Tanzania (mainland, Zanzibar)
  • Maypacius vittiger Simon, 1898 – Madagascar

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Maypacius Simon, 1898". Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2408. Retrieved 2019-07-05. 
  2. Simon, E. (1898). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux des familles des Agelenidae, Pisauridae, Lycosidae et Oxyopidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 42: 5–34. 

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