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Genus
<taxonomicName id="1747BBD0664C3CD58F614BF7019A6AC6" ID-CoL="PZJ" ID-ENA="412062" authority="Forster &amp; Platnick, 1984" authorityName="Forster &amp; Platnick" authorityYear="1984" class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Afrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Afrarchaea" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Afrarchaea Forster &amp; Platnick, 1984</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName id="ABE085D09586C770AC5806582EDC403E" class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Afrarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Afrarchaea" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Afrarchaea</taxonomicName>
Forster &amp; Platnick, 1984: 24.
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<paragraph id="894FBCE3AEEBC56BC6C153257719F93A" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Type species.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="258F9172BD166A6D4B65BDB2F267C430" class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Archaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Archaea godfreyi" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="godfreyi">Archaea godfreyi</taxonomicName>
Hewitt, 1919: 196, figs 1-2 (by original designation).
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<paragraph id="A8DABB16C105B391B3DABD6076891E9D" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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Distinguished from all extant genera by the presence of a prominent keel on the FSGP (see fig. 58 of
<bibRefCitation id="AC7B187181BF93DD7794814AF08F2E02" author="Forster, RR" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="1 - 106" title="A review of the archaeid spiders and their relatives, with notes on the limits of the superfamily Palpimanoidea (Arachnida, Araneae)." volume="178" year="1984">Forster and Platnick (1984)</bibRefCitation>
, fig. 3 of
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, and figs 1
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and 6
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of
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). The keel likely has been lost in
<taxonomicName id="878F3CD3CC8F2DC7B311888EA22771E3" lsidName="A. royalensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="royalensis">A. royalensis</taxonomicName>
and
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given the central phylogenetic placement of these two species (Fig. 1).
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<paragraph id="AD7993D4C7BD352187C343EA50A88BF8" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Description.</paragraph>
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See
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for description.
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<paragraph id="27C2EC1ABB60C4094D8009DC5ED882AA" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Included species.</paragraph>
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12 described species,
<taxonomicName id="00F82D103889710223B9ACEE4E6D47FC" lsidName="A. cornutus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="cornutus">A. cornutus</taxonomicName>
(Lotz, 2003),
<taxonomicName id="C84B466C88078730F6B130ABCF3F43E7" lsidName="A. ansieae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="ansieae">A. ansieae</taxonomicName>
Lotz, 2015,
<taxonomicName id="AD355C6C7B7767B5420B65C54ECA9EA6" lsidName="A. bergae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="bergae">A. bergae</taxonomicName>
Lotz, 1996,
<taxonomicName id="49481CE884672AACB9DEA56026992EA5" lsidName="A. entabeniensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="entabeniensis">A. entabeniensis</taxonomicName>
Lotz, 2003,
<taxonomicName id="7FE910A863FD3339AD4B477BC3CB374C" lsidName="A. fernkloofensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="fernkloofensis">A. fernkloofensis</taxonomicName>
Lotz, 1996,
<taxonomicName id="4A04F1237D953347FFEFCE2776585C21" lsidName="A. godfreyi" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="godfreyi">A. godfreyi</taxonomicName>
(Hewitt, 1919),
<taxonomicName id="04C8896549B0B9BD74FC4E70973678D3" lsidName="A. haddadi" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="haddadi">A. haddadi</taxonomicName>
Lotz, 2006,
<taxonomicName id="CA828132E0389A21B2D755F9DC488D45" lsidName="A. harveyi" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="harveyi">A. harveyi</taxonomicName>
Lotz, 2003,
<taxonomicName id="9C82B156D11DBCB5A650CC4EF1252C81" lsidName="A. kranskopensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="kranskopensis">A. kranskopensis</taxonomicName>
Lotz, 1996,
<taxonomicName id="651EE02FC23E26032C738EECABB71DA6" lsidName="A. lawrencei" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="lawrencei">A. lawrencei</taxonomicName>
Lotz, 1996,
<taxonomicName id="18C0056A89AC44E229E2C6F473A41DCA" lsidName="A. ngomensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="ngomensis">A. ngomensis</taxonomicName>
Lotz, 1996,
<taxonomicName id="7D0E73EDBB3DD5EB76CC37A1B397F1CD" lsidName="A. royalensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="royalensis">A. royalensis</taxonomicName>
Lotz, 2006,
<taxonomicName id="5D2288FFE078EB64467704626B51371F" lsidName="A. woodae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="woodae">A. woodae</taxonomicName>
Lotz, 2006. Two species originally described as
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have been transferred:
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Lotz, 2003 and
<taxonomicName id="5995099B946F288A2ACF4D1C09ACDB2A" lsidName="A. mahariraensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="mahariraensis">A. mahariraensis</taxonomicName>
Lotz, 2003, both to
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(new combinations).
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<paragraph id="9A02E8E956E40C31F7F21E6592CC6877" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="B5E079B0C074E899423EBCDAFE3F30F4" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">South Africa.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="4CEA3A57E87A6E932CF5343E2BF349AF" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Discussion.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8DB3A67D135F2FC4400E31F8D7097570" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
Phylogenetic analysis based on molecular data recovered a monophylectic
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with strong branch support (
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). This research supports the transfer of
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from
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to
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and the transfer of
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from
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to
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(Fig. 1). Furthermore, females of
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have a FSGP keel typical of
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(see fig. 3 of
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) and females of
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do not (Fig. 15
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).
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Regarding
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distribution,
<bibRefCitation id="16CBC11CED4CAA21BDEF5DA218C27A42" author="Legendre, R" journalOrPublisher="Faune de Madagascar" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="1 - 50" title="Arachnides-Araignees-Archaeidae." volume="32" year="1970">Legendre (1970)</bibRefCitation>
reported on a male and female specimen (not examined for this study) collected at Manjakatompo, Madagascar, which he identified as
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. However, Legendre noted that these specimens were different from
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in some details (i.e., the absence of prominent cephalic spines and the absence of abdominal sclerotization). These differences suggest that these specimens are not
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. Unfortunately, in the CAS collections only a single juvenile specimen has been collected from Manjakatompo. This specimen also has reduced spines on the cephalon (only one rudimentary spine is present), which is again suggestive that this specimen is not
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. Furthermore, many
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species endemic to Madagascar have the short fat
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typical of most
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(other than
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and
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) and also have reduced spination on the cephalon. The species
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,
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sp. n.,
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sp. n.,
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,
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,
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sp. n., and
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sp. n. all superfically resemble
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in terms of carapace shape (Figs 9A, 10A, 11A, 12A, 15A).
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and
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were originally described as
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based solely on carapace shape (
<bibRefCitation id="E8E7512FC2076D2AFF4CA542F896E3D4" author="Lotz, LN" journalOrPublisher="Navorsinge van die Nasionale Museum Bloemfontein" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="221 - 240" title="Afrotropical Archaeidae: 2. New species of genera Archaea and Afrarchaea (Arachnida: Araneae)." volume="19" year="2003">Lotz 2003</bibRefCitation>
). Current research on archaeids shows that carapace shape has evolved in parallel, with similar morphs evolving repeatedly (
<bibRefCitation id="25C427269714D973BA293D338DB0D985" author="Wood, HM" journalOrPublisher="The Journal of Arachnology" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="20 - 29" title="Integrating fossil and extant lineages: an examination of morphological space through time (Araneae: Archaeidae)." url="https://doi.org/10.1636/JoA-S-16-039.1" volume="45" year="2017">Wood 2017</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="CE35FA78C8897F5C3821670D7DDFB4F5" author="Wood, HM" journalOrPublisher="Evolution" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="462 - 481" title="Why is Madagascar special? The extraordinarily slow evolution of pelican spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae)." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12578" volume="69" year="2015">Wood et al. 2015</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="1470622D2E8E62730FDE3520D667BD00" author="Wood, HM" journalOrPublisher="Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="612 - 619" title="Phylogenetic relationships within an endemic group of Malagasy ' assassin spiders' (Araneae, Archaeidae): ancestral character reconstruction, convergent evolution and biogeography." url="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2007.07.012" volume="45" year="2007">Wood et al. 2007</bibRefCitation>
), suggesting that carapace shape is not a good diagnostic trait for these genera. Phylogenetic analysis (
<bibRefCitation id="E7BDF76D1557C1054E57D5D08D912900" author="Wood, HM" journalOrPublisher="Evolution" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="462 - 481" title="Why is Madagascar special? The extraordinarily slow evolution of pelican spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae)." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12578" volume="69" year="2015">Wood et al. 2015</bibRefCitation>
) and morphological examination of numerous African and Madagascan specimens suggests instead that the African and Madagascan species are short-range endemics that are restricted to either southern Africa or Madagascar, but not both (Fig. 1). Furthermore, after over 10 years of extensive collecting in Madagascar by CAS researchers, specimens of
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have never been found. For these reasons we propose that the distribution of
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be restricted to South Africa until evidence suggests otherwise.
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Figure 29. Distribution map for
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species.
</paragraph>
</caption>
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<paragraph id="86CE3EAD971FDEE806F7F56B30E00EDD" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
Figure 30. Distribution map for
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species.
</paragraph>
</caption>
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<paragraph id="F11EB557151C606150089AB056346661" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
Figure 31. Distribution map for
<taxonomicName id="9615E124E9E81E3056D931687BDD4E58" class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Eriauchenius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Eriauchenius" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Eriauchenius</taxonomicName>
species.
</paragraph>
</caption>
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<paragraph id="D66740AD6CE37DE554C93D79999E762C" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
Figure 32. Distribution map for
<taxonomicName id="78FD829738114472A3AA383305FA628B" class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Eriauchenius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Eriauchenius" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Eriauchenius</taxonomicName>
species. ** The distribution for
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is an approximation as the holotype does not have latitude/longitude data.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="D3742E720C148CCE9D39BAED8B8A6D52" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
Figure 33. Distribution map for
<taxonomicName id="160BAEE88150DDC3B58E195A85382006" class="Arachnida" family="Archaeidae" genus="Madagascarchaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Madagascarchaea" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Madagascarchaea</taxonomicName>
species.
</paragraph>
</caption>
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<paragraph id="F1DE94CD906AA471ABCAF287473A629B" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
Figure 34. Distribution map for
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species.
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