Biology:Schenkelia

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Schenkelia
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Schenkelia
Lessert, 1927[1]
Type species
S. modesta
Lessert, 1927
Species

5, see text

Schenkelia is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by R. de Lessert in 1927.[2]

Species

(As of September 2020) it contains four species, found only in Africa and Sri Lanka:[1]

  • Schenkelia benoiti Wanless & Clark, 1975 – Ivory Coast
  • Schenkelia ibadanensis Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2011 – Nigeria
  • Schenkelia lesserti Berland & Millot, 1941 – Guinea
  • Schenkelia modesta Lessert, 1927 (type) – Africa

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Schenkelia Lessert, 1927. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2947. Retrieved 2020-09-04. 
  2. Lessert, R. de (1927). "Araignées du Congo (Premiere partie)". Revue Suisse de Zoologie 34: 405–475. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.117612. 

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