East African pholcid spiders: an overview, with descriptions of eight new species (Araneae, Pholcidae)
Author
Bernhard A. Huber
Author
Charles M. Warui
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2012
2012-11-26
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journal article
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Spermophora
Hentz, 1841
Spermophora
is in fact an Asian genus (
Huber 2005
) and African representatives have tentatively been assigned to it for lack of a better hypothesis (
Huber 2003a
). Recent molecular data (
Dimitrov
et al
. 2012
) suggest that at least the six Kenyan species (
Fig. 27
) are closely related to the East African genus
Buitinga
. Twelve East African species are currently assigned to
Spermophora
.