Buitinga

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

Buitinga
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Pholcidae
Genus:	Buitinga Huber, 2003[1]
Type species
B. kadogo Huber, 2003
Species
22, see text

Species

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

• Buitinga amani Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
• Buitinga asax Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
• Buitinga batwa Huber & Warui, 2012 – Uganda
• Buitinga buhoma Huber, 2003 – Uganda
• Buitinga ensifera (Tullgren, 1910) – Tanzania
• Buitinga globosa (Tullgren, 1910) – Tanzania
• Buitinga griswoldi Huber, 2003 – Uganda
• Buitinga kadogo Huber, 2003 (type) – Tanzania
• Buitinga kanzuiri Huber, 2003 – Congo
• Buitinga kihanga Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
• Buitinga kikura Huber, 2003 – Congo
• Buitinga lakilingo Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
• Buitinga mazumbai Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
• Buitinga mbomole Huber, 2003 – Kenya, Tanzania
• Buitinga mulanje Huber, 2003 – Malawi
• Buitinga nigrescens (Berland, 1920) – Kenya, Tanzania
• Buitinga ruhiza Huber, 2003 – Uganda
• Buitinga ruwenzori Huber, 2003 – Congo, Uganda
• Buitinga safura Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
• Buitinga tingatingai Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
• Buitinga uzungwa Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
• Buitinga wataita Huber & Warui, 2012 – Kenya

See also

• List of Pholcidae species

References

1. "Gen. Buitinga Huber, 2003". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
2. Huber, B. A. (2003). "High species diversity in one of the dominant groups of spiders in East African montane forests (Aranae: Pholcidae: Buitinga n. gen., Spermophora Hentz)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 137: 555–619.