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Deelemania

Deelemania is a genus of African dwarf spiders that was first described by R. Jocqué & R. Bosmans in 1983.

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Deelemania
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Deelemania
Jocqué & Bosmans, 19831
Type species
D. manensis
Jocqué & Bosmans, 1983
Species

4, see text

Deelemania is a genus of African dwarf spiders that was first described by R. Jocqué & R. Bosmans in 1983.2

Species

As of May 2019 it contains four species:1

  • Deelemania gabonensis Jocqué, 1983 – Gabon
  • Deelemania malawiensis Jocqué & Russell-Smith, 1984 – Malawi
  • Deelemania manensis Jocqué & Bosmans, 1983 (type) – Ivory Coast
  • Deelemania nasuta Bosmans, 1988 – Cameroon
References

References

  1. "Gen. Deelemania Jocqué & Bosmans, 1983". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
  2. Jocqué, R.; Bosmans, R. (1983). "Linyphiidae (Araneae) from Ivory Coast, with the description of three new genera". Zoologische Mededelingen. 57 (1): 1–18.