Pholcid spiders from the Lower Guinean region of Central Africa: an overview, with descriptions of seven new species (Araneae, Pholcidae)
Author
Bernhard A. Huber
Author
Philippe Le Gall
Author
Jacques Francois Mavoungou
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2014
81
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46
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Smeringopina
Kraus, 1957
The Guineo-Congolian genus
Smeringopina
has its highest diversity in Central Africa (
Huber 2013
). Any Central African forest seems to contain one to three representatives of the genus, and places without known records have most probably never been searched adequately (
Fig. 32
). Of the 44 currently known species, 37 occur in the area considered here. Except for
S. fon
Huber, 2013
(which ranges into West Africa) all of them are endemic to Central Africa.