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Aethriscus

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Aethriscus is a genus of African orb-weaver spiders first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1902. The two described species are found in the DR Congo. One of them was later also found in South Africa.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyAraneidae

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Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Araneidae
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taxon name
Aethriscus
taxon rank
genus
taxonomic type
Aethriscus olivaceus
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Aethriscus is a genus of African orb-weaver spiders first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1902. The two described species are found in the DR Congo. One of them was later also found in South Africa.

They are rare spiders and resemble Cyrtarachne.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aethriscus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.