''Spinotrachelas'' is a

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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 ...

n araneomorph spiders in the family

Trachelidae Trachelidae is a family of araneomorph spiders (more recently evolved spiders with inward-pointing chelicerae) first described by Eugène Simon in 1897 as a subfamily called "Tracheleae" ("Trachelinae" in modern terminology). The Trachelidae fam ...

, first described by C. R. Haddad in 2006.

Species

it contains five species, all found in

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Spinotrachelas capensis ''Spinotrachelas'' is a genus of South African araneomorph spiders in the family Trachelidae, first described by C. R. Haddad in 2006. Species it contains five species, all found in South Africa: *'' Spinotrachelas capensis'' Haddad, 2006 (typ ...

'' Haddad, 2006 (

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) – South Africa *'' Spinotrachelas confinis'' Lyle, 2011 – South Africa *'' Spinotrachelas montanus'' Haddad, Neethling & Lyle, 2011 – South Africa *'' Spinotrachelas namaquensis'' Lyle, 2011 – South Africa *'' Spinotrachelas similis'' Lyle, 2011 – South Africa

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Endemic fauna of South Africa Araneomorphae genera Trachelidae {{Trachelidae-stub