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

26, see text

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

Species

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

  • Quamtana biena Huber, 2003 – Congo
  • Quamtana bonamanzi Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana ciliata (Lawrence, 1938) – South Africa
  • Quamtana embuleni Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana entabeni Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana filmeri Huber, 2003 – South Africa, Lesotho
  • Quamtana hectori Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana kabale Huber, 2003 – Uganda
  • Quamtana kitahurira Huber, 2003 – Guinea, Angola, Uganda, Burundi, Congo
  • Quamtana knysna Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana lajuma Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana leleupi Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana leptopholcica (Strand, 1909) – South Africa
  • Quamtana lotzi Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana mabusai Huber, 2003 – South Africa, Swaziland
  • Quamtana mbaba Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana merwei Huber, 2003 (type) – South Africa
  • Quamtana meyeri Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana molimo Huber, 2003 – Lesotho
  • Quamtana nandi Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana nyahururu Huber & Warui, 2012 – Kenya, Tanzania
  • Quamtana nylsvley Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana oku Huber, 2003 – Cameroon
  • Quamtana tsui Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana umzinto Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana vidal Huber, 2003 – South Africa

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Quamtana Huber, 2003". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. Huber, B. A. (2003). "Southern African pholcid spiders: revision and cladistic analysis of Quamtana gen. nov. and Spermophora Hentz (Araneae: Pholcidae), with notes on male-female covariation". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 139: 477–527.


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