Quamtana

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Quamtana
Temporal range: Palaeogene– Present
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pholcidae
Genus: Quamtana
Huber, 2003[1]
Type species
Q. merwei
Huber, 2003
Species

26, see text

Quamtana is a genus of African cellar spiders that was first described by B. A. Huber in 2003.[2]

Species[edit]

As of June 2019 it contains twenty-six species, found only in Africa:[1]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Quamtana Huber, 2003". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. ^ Huber, B. A. (2003). "Southern African pholcid spiders: revision and cladistic analysis of Quamtana gen. nov. and Spermophora Hentz (Araneae: Pholcidae), with notes on male-female covariation". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 139: 477–527.