Jocquestus

Jocquestus is a genus of African araneomorph spiders in the family Trachelidae, first described by R. Lyle & C. R. Haddad in 2018.[2]

Jocquestus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Trachelidae
Genus: Jocquestus
Lyle & Haddad, 2018[1]
Type species
J. schenkeli (Lessert, 1923)
Species

7, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains seven species:[1]

  • Jocquestus capensis Lyle & Haddad, 2018 — South Africa
  • Jocquestus griswoldi Lyle & Haddad, 2018 — Tanzania
  • Jocquestus harrisi Lyle & Haddad, 2018 — South Africa
  • Jocquestus incurvus Lyle & Haddad, 2018 — South Africa
  • Jocquestus obliquus Lyle & Haddad, 2018 — Tanzania
  • Jocquestus roeweri (Lawrence, 1938) — South Africa
  • Jocquestus schenkeli (Lessert, 1923) — D.R. Congo, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Angola?

References
  1. "Gen. Jocquestus Lyle & Haddad, 2018". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  2. Lyle, R.; Haddad, C. R. (2018). "Jocquestus, a new genus of trachelid sac spiders from the Afrotropical Region (Arachnida: Araneae)". Zootaxa. 4471 (2): 309–333. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4471.2.4. PMID 30313406.


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