Charminus is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1899.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Pisauridae |
| Genus: | Charminus Thorell, 1899[1] |
| Type species | |
| C. camerunensis Thorell, 1899
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| Species | |
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9, see text | |
Species
editAs of June 2019[update] it contains nine species and one subspecies, found only in Africa:[1]
- Charminus aethiopicus (Caporiacco, 1939) – Ethiopia, Kenya
- Charminus ambiguus (Lessert, 1925) – East, Southern Africa
- Charminus a. concolor (Caporiacco, 1947) – East Africa
- Charminus atomarius (Lawrence, 1942) – Central, East, Southern Africa
- Charminus bifidus Blandin, 1978 – Rwanda
- Charminus camerunensis Thorell, 1899 (type) – West, Central Africa
- Charminus marfieldi (Roewer, 1955) – West, Central Africa
- Charminus minor (Lessert, 1928) – Ivory Coast, Congo
- Charminus natalensis (Lawrence, 1947) – South Africa
- Charminus rotundus Blandin, 1978 – Congo
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Charminus Thorell, 1899". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- ^ Thorell, T. (1899). "Araneae Camerunenses (Africae occidentalis) quas anno 1891 collegerunt Cel. Dr Y. Sjöstedt aliique". Bihang till Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar. 25 (1): 1–105.