''Afrilobus'' is a
genus of African
araneomorph spiders in the family
Orsolobidae
Orsolobidae is a six-eyed spider family with about 180 described species in thirty genera. It was first described by J. A. L. Cooke in 1965, and was raised to family status from "Dysderidae" in 1985.
Genera
Most genera are endemic to New Zeala ...
, and was first described by C. E. Griswold &
Norman I. Platnick
Norman Ira Platnick (December 30, 1951 – April 8, 2020) was an American biological systematist and arachnologist. At the time of his death, he was a professor emeritus of the Richard Gilder Graduate School and Peter J. Solomon Family Curator Em ...
in 1987.
it contains only three species, found only in Africa and
South Africa: ''
A. australis'', ''
A. capensis'', and ''
A. jocquei''.
See also
*
List of Orsolobidae species
This page lists all described species of the spider family Orsolobidae accepted by the World Spider Catalog :
A ''Afrilobus''
'' Afrilobus'' Griswold & Platnick, 1987
* '' A. australis'' Griswold & Platnick, 1987 — South Africa
* '' A. capens ...
References
Araneomorphae genera
Orsolobidae
Spiders of Africa
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