''Coleosoma africanum'' is a species of spiders of the family
Theridiidae
Theridiidae, also known as the tangle-web spiders, cobweb spiders and comb-footed spiders, is a large family of Araneomorphae, araneomorph spiders first described by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1833. This diverse, globally distributed family includes ...
that is endemic in
Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...
.
The species was first described by
Günter E. W. Schmidt and
Rolf Harald Krause in 1995.
References
Further reading
*Schmidt & Krause (1995) ''Weitere Spinnen von Cabo Verde.'' Entomologische Zeitschrift, Frankfurt am Main, vol. 105, no. 18, p. 355-364.
Theridiidae
Spiders of Africa
Spiders described in 1995
Taxa named by Günter E. W. Schmidt
Taxa named by Rolf Harald Krause
Arthropods of Cape Verde
Endemic fauna of Cape Verde
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