Alfenus

Genus of spiders

Alfenus

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Salticidae
Subfamily:  | Salticinae
Genus:  | Alfenus
Simon, 1902[1]
Type species
Alfenus calamistratus

Simon, 1902

Species

See text

Diversity
2 species

Alfenus is a genus of jumping spiders.

The two species were described by Eugène Simon in the early 1900s, based on a single male specimen each. However, the two species are so different that they probably do not belong to the same genus (Szűts & Scharff, 2005).

Alfenus calamistratus has a characteristic hairy appearance.

The males (no females have been observed yet) are 7 millimeters (0.28 in) (A. chrysophaeus) to 9 millimeters (0.35 in) (A. calamistratum) long, with a dark brown carapace. The hairs on A. calamistratum are white or brownish-orange.

## Species

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* Alfenus calamistratus Simon, 1902 – Congo Basin
* Alfenus chrysophaeus Simon, 1903 – Equatorial Guinea or Cameroon

## References

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1. ^ "Gen. Alfenus Simon, 1902", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2016-12-22

* Szűts, T. & Scharff, N. (2005): Redescriptions of little known jumping spider genera (Araneae: Salticidae) from West Africa. Acta zoologica hungarica 51(4):357-378. PDF (with drawings)

Taxon identifiers

Alfenus|

* Wikidata: Q1540641
* Wikispecies: Alfenus
* ADW: Alfenus
* BioLib: 489252
* CoL: 628QH
* EoL: 114071
* GBIF: 2178029
* iNaturalist: 420240
* IRMNG: 1362243
* ITIS: 871593
* NCBI: 1222150
* Open Tree of Life: 777673
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02807

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