Brachyphaea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Corinnidae
Genus: Brachyphaea
Simon, 1895[1]
Type species
B. simoni
Simon, 1895
Species

7, see text

Brachyphaea is a genus of African corinnid sac spiders first described by W. Bösenberg & Heinrich Lenz in 1895.[2]

Species

As of April 2019 it contains seven species:[1]

  • Brachyphaea berlandi Lessert, 1915 – East Africa
  • Brachyphaea castanea Simon, 1896 – Tanzania (Zanzibar)
  • Brachyphaea hulli Lessert, 1921 – East Africa
  • Brachyphaea proxima Lessert, 1921 – East Africa
  • Brachyphaea simoni Simon, 1895 (type) – East Africa
  • Brachyphaea simpliciaculeata Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
  • Brachyphaea vulpina Simon, 1896 – Mozambique

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Brachyphaea Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
  2. Bösenberg, W.; Lenz, H. (1895). "Ostafrikanische Spinnen gesammelt von Herrn Dr. F. Stuhlmann in den Jahren 1888 und 1889". Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten. 12 (2): 27–51.


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