Xevioso (spider)

Genus of spiders

Xevioso
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Phyxelididae
Genus: Xevioso
Lehtinen, 1967[1]
Type species
X. tuberculata
(Lawrence, 1939)
Species

11, see text

Xevioso is a genus of African araneomorph spiders in the family Phyxelididae, and was first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2]

Species

As of December 2022[update] it contains eleven species, found only in Africa:[1]

  • Xevioso amica Griswold, 1990 – South Africa
  • Xevioso aululata Griswold, 1990 – South Africa
  • Xevioso cepfi Pett & Jocqué, 2020 – Mozambique
  • Xevioso colobata Griswold, 1990 – South Africa
  • Xevioso jocquei Griswold, 1990 – Malawi
  • Xevioso kulufa Griswold, 1990 – South Africa
  • Xevioso lichmadina Griswold, 1990 – South Africa
  • Xevioso megcummingae Pett & Jocqué, 2020 – Malawi, Zimbabwe
  • Xevioso orthomeles Griswold, 1990 – Zimbabwe, Eswatini, South Africa
  • Xevioso tuberculata (Lawrence, 1939) (type) – South Africa
  • Xevioso zuluana (Lawrence, 1939) – South Africa

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Xevioso Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. ^ Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 199–468.
Taxon identifiers
Xevioso


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