''Carteronius'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...
n
corinnid sac spiders first described by
Eugène Simon in 1896.
Species
it contains eight species:
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Carteronius arboreus''
Bonaldo & Haddad, 2022 – DR Congo
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Carteronius ashanti''
Bonaldo & Silva-Junior, 2022 – Ghana
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Carteronius gentilis''
(Simon, 1909) – Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea
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Carteronius lumumba
''Carteronius'' is a genus of Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it ...
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Bonaldo & Ramírez, 2022 – Cameroon, Gabon, DR Congo
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Carteronius myene''
Bonaldo & Labarque, 2022 – Gabon
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Carteronius simoni''
Bonaldo & Shimano, 2022 – Gabon
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Carteronius sudanus''
(Karsch, 1880) (
type) – Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, DR Congo
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Carteronius teke''
Bonaldo & Bosselaers, 2022 – DR Congo
References
Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of Africa
Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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