''Ricinoides'' is an arthropod

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Ricinoididae, first described by Henry Ewing in 1929.

Distribution

Species in this genus are found in

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Species

it contains sixteen species: * '' Ricinoides afzelii'' (Thorell, 1892) — Ghana, Guinea, Sierra Leone * '' Ricinoides atewa'' Naskrecki, 2008 — Ghana * '' Ricinoides crassipalpe'' (Hansen & Sørensen, 1904) — Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea * '' Ricinoides eburneus'' Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Côte d’Ivoire * '' Ricinoides feae'' (Hansen, 1921) — Guinea, Guinea-Bissau * '' Ricinoides hanseni'' Legg, 1976 — Sierra Leone * '' Ricinoides iita'' Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Nigeria * '' Ricinoides kakum'' Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Ghana * '' Ricinoides karschii'' (Hansen & Sørensen, 1904) — Cameroon, Congo, Gabon * '' Ricinoides leonensis'' Legg, 1978 — Sierra Leone * '' Ricinoides megahanseni'' Legg, 1982 — Côte d’Ivoire * '' Ricinoides nzerekorensis'' Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Guinea * '' Ricinoides olounoua'' Legg, 1978 — Cameroon * '' Ricinoides sjostedtii'' (Hansen & Sørensen, 1904) — Cameroon, Nigeria * '' Ricinoides taii'' Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Côte d’Ivoire * '' Ricinoides westermannii'' (Guérin-Méneville, 1838) — Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2480951 Arachnid genera Ricinulei Arachnids of Africa