Biology:Sarascelis

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Sarascelis
Sarascelis chaperi male.jpg
S. chaperi male
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Palpimanidae
Genus: Sarascelis
Simon, 1887[1]
Type species
S. chaperi
Simon, 1887
Species

7, see text

Sarascelis is a genus of palp-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1887.[2]

Species

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

  • Sarascelis chaperi Simon, 1887 (type) – Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau
  • Sarascelis junquai Jézéquel, 1964 – Ivory Coast
  • Sarascelis kilimandjari (Berland, 1920) – Tanzania
  • Sarascelis lamtoensis Jézéquel, 1964 – Ivory Coast, Ghana
  • Sarascelis luteipes Simon, 1887 – Congo, São Tomé and Príncipe
  • Sarascelis raffrayi Simon, 1893 – Singapore, India?
  • Sarascelis rebiereae Jézéquel, 1964 – Ivory Coast

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Sarascelis Simon, 1887. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2234. Retrieved 2019-07-04. 
  2. Simon, E. (1887). "Etudes arachnologiques. 19e Mémoire. XXVII. Arachnides recueillis à Assinie (Afrique occidentale) par MM. Chaper et Alluaud". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 7 (6): 261–276. 

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