''May'' is a genus of spiders in the family
Sparassidae
Huntsman spiders, members of the family Sparassidae (formerly Heteropodidae), are known by this name because of their speed and mode of hunting. They are also called giant crab spiders because of their size and appearance. Larger species sometim ...
. It was first described in 2015 by
Peter Jäger Peter Jäger is a German people, German arachnologist, and current Head of Arachnology at the Naturmuseum Senckenberg, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany.
He has named several spiders after celebrities; ...
and Henrik Krehenwinkel.
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Species
, the World Spider Catalog
The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature. The WSC began as a series of ...
accepted the following species, all found in southern Africa:[
*'' May ansie'' Jäger & Krehenwinkel, 2015 – ]Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...
*'' May bruno'' Jäger & Krehenwinkel, 2015 (type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...
) – South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...
*'' May norm'' Jäger & Krehenwinkel, 2015 – Namibia
*'' May rudy'' Jäger & Krehenwinkel, 2015 – Namibia
References
Sparassidae
Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of Africa
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