''Stasinoides'' is a

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of Ethiopian huntsman spiders containing the single species, ''Stasinoides aethiopica''. It was first described by

Lucien Berland Lucien Berland (14 May 1888 in Ay, Marne – 18 August 1962 in Versailles)Jean-Jacques Amigo, « Berland (Lucien) », in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de ...

in 1922, and is found in

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

. It has only been recorded twice, and is probably misplaced in this family.

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Endemic fauna of Ethiopia Monotypic Araneomorphae genera Sparassidae Spiders of Africa Taxa named by Lucien Berland {{Sparassidae-stub

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