''Coleosoma africanum'' is a species of spiders of the family
Theridiidae
Theridiidae, also known as the tangle-web spiders, cobweb spiders and comb-footed spiders, is a large family of Araneomorphae, araneomorph spiders first described by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1833. This diverse, globally distributed family includes ...
that is endemic in
Cape Verde
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The species was first described by
Günter E. W. Schmidt and
Rolf Harald Krause Rolf is a male given name and a surname. It originates in the Germanic name ''Hrolf'', itself a contraction of ''Hrodwulf'' ( Rudolf), a conjunction of the stem words ''hrod'' ("renown") + ''wulf'' ("wolf"). The Old Norse cognate is ''Hrólfr''. A ...
in 1995.
References
Further reading
*Schmidt & Krause (1995) ''Weitere Spinnen von Cabo Verde.'' Entomologische Zeitschrift, Frankfurt am Main, vol. 105, no. 18, p. 355-364.
Theridiidae
Spiders of Africa
Spiders described in 1995
Taxa named by Günter E. W. Schmidt
Taxa named by Rolf Harald Krause
Arthropods of Cape Verde
Endemic fauna of Cape Verde
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