Afroneutria velox

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lycosoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Araneomorphae Series: Entelegynae Superfamilia: Lycosoidea

Familia: Ctenidae
Subfamilia: Cteninae
Genus: Afroneutria
Species: Afroneutria velox

Name

Afroneutria velox (Blackwall, 1865)

Tyype locality: Mozambique, Shiré River with Zambezi River (approximate coordinates: 17°40’24.0” S, 35°17’51.2” E)

Lectotype: OUMNH. female ♀. OUMNH 1554. (lectotype Ctenus velox designated by Polotow & Jocqué, 2015: 5)

Synonymy

• Ctenus velox Blackwall, 1865: 336 (original combination)
• Afroneutria velox Blackwall - Polotow & Jocqué, 2015: 5
• Phoneutria melanogastra Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895: 36
  • Type locality: East Africa
    • Syntypes: ZMUH. 2 males ♂ and 1 female ♀.
• Ctenus marshalli Pickard-Cambridge, 1898: 26
  • Type locality: Zimbabwe, Umfuli River, also known as Mupfure River (approximate coordinates: 17°55’13.3” S, 29°56’40.7” E), Mashonaland.
    • Holotype: BMNH. male ♂.

References

Primary references

• Blackwall, J. 1865b. Descriptions of recently discovered species and characters of a new genus, of Araneida from the east of Central Africa. [[|Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 16(95): 336-352. DOI: 10.1080/00222936508679441. . Reference page. 

Additional references

• Bösenberg, F.W. & Lenz, H.W.C. 1895. Ostafrikanische Spinnen gesammelt von Herrn Dr. F. Stuhlmann in den Jahren 1888 und 1889. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten 12(2): 27-51. Reference page. 
• Pickard-Cambridge, F.O. 1898. On the cteniform spiders of Africa, Arabia and Syria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 66(1): 13–32. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1898.tb03126.x Reference page. 
• Polotow, D. & Jocqué, R. 2015. Afroneutria, a new spider genus of Afrotropical Ctenidae (Arachnida, Araneae). European Journal of Taxonomy 121: 1-27. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2015.121. . Reference page.