Afroneta

Short description: Genus of spiders

Afroneta

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Linyphiidae
Genus:  | Afroneta
Holm, 1968[1]
Type species
A. immaculata

Holm, 1968

Species

29, see text

Afroneta is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Å. Holm in 1968.[2]

## Species

As of May 2019[update] it contained twenty-nine species:[1]

* Afroneta altivaga Holm, 1968 – Congo
* Afroneta annulata Merrett, 2004 – Congo
* Afroneta bamilekei Bosmans, 1988 – Cameroon
* Afroneta basilewskyi Holm, 1968 – Tanzania
* Afroneta blesti Merrett & Russell-Smith, 1996 – Ethiopia
* Afroneta elgonensis Merrett, 2004 – Kenya
* Afroneta erecta Merrett, 2004 – Congo
* Afroneta flavescens Frick & Scharff, 2018 – Kenya
* Afroneta fulva Merrett, 2004 – Congo
* Afroneta fusca Merrett, 2004 – Congo
* Afroneta guttata Holm, 1968 – Congo
* Afroneta immaculata Holm, 1968 (type) – Congo
* Afroneta immaculoides Merrett, 2004 – Congo
* Afroneta lativulva Merrett, 2004 – Congo
* Afroneta lobeliae Merrett, 2004 – Congo
* Afroneta longipalpis Ledoux & Attié, 2008 – Réunion
* Afroneta longispinosa Holm, 1968 – Congo
* Afroneta maculata Merrett, 2004 – Congo
* Afroneta millidgei Merrett & Russell-Smith, 1996 – Ethiopia
* Afroneta pallens Merrett, 2004 – Congo
* Afroneta picta Holm, 1968 – Congo
* Afroneta praticola Holm, 1968 – Tanzania
* Afroneta sarahae Frick & Scharff, 2018 – Kenya
* Afroneta serrata Frick & Scharff, 2018 – Kenya
* Afroneta snazelli Merrett & Russell-Smith, 1996 – Ethiopia
* Afroneta subfusca Holm, 1968 – Congo
* Afroneta subfuscoides Merrett, 2004 – Congo
* Afroneta tenuivulva Merrett, 2004 – Congo
* Afroneta tristis Merrett, 2004 – Congo

## See also

* List of Linyphiidae species

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gen. Afroneta Holm, 1968. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1153. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
2. ↑ Holm, Å. (1968). "Spiders of the families Erigonidae and Linyphiidae from East and Central Africa.". Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques 171: 1–49.

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