Buitinga is a genus of African cellar spiders that was first described by B. A. Huber in 2003.[2]

Buitinga
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pholcidae
Genus: Buitinga
Huber, 2003[1]
Type species
B. kadogo
Huber, 2003
Species

22, see text

Species

edit

As of June 2019 it contains twenty-two species, found only in Africa:[1]

See also

edit

References

edit
  1. ^ a b "Gen. Buitinga Huber, 2003". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. ^ Huber, B. A. (2003). "High species diversity in one of the dominant groups of spiders in East African montane forests (Aranae: Pholcidae: Buitinga n. gen., Spermophora Hentz)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 137: 555–619.