Mashimo
Sign in to saveMashimo leleupi is a species of spider in the family Dictynidae. It is commonly known as the Mashimo mesh-web spider and is the only species in the monotypic genus Mashimo.
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- Specimen records
- 33
- Family
- Dictynidae
- Collections
- ARC-PPRI
- Recorded in
- South Africa, Southern Africa
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Mashimo leleupi is a species of spider in the family Dictynidae. It is commonly known as the Mashimo mesh-web spider and is the only species in the monotypic genus Mashimo.
==Distribution== Mashimo leleupi is an African endemic originally described from Zambia. In South Africa, it has been recorded from five provinces, Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and Western Cape. The species occurs at altitudes ranging from 4 to 1,513 m above sea level.
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