''Hexablemma'' is a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

araneomorph The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha or "true spiders") are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (taran ...

spiders in the family

Tetrablemmidae Tetrablemmidae, sometimes called armored spiders, is a family of tropical araneomorph spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1873. It contains 126 described species in 29 genera from southeast Asia, with a few that occur in Afri ...

containing the single species, ''Hexablemma cataphractum''. It was first described by

Lucien Berland Lucien Berland (14 May 1888 in Ay, Marne – 18 August 1962 in Versailles)Jean-Jacques Amigo, « Berland (Lucien) », in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications d ...

in 1920 from a female found in

Kenya Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country located in East Africa. With an estimated population of more than 52.4 million as of mid-2024, Kenya is the 27th-most-populous country in the world and the 7th most populous in Africa. ...

. It was separated from ''

Tetrablemma ''Tetrablemma'' is a widespread genus of Tetrablemmidae, armored spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1873. It contains 30 species found in Tropics, tropical and Subtropics, subtropical regions primarily throughout Asia and O ...

'' in 1978 for this single species, because it doesn't belong there, but doesn't seem to belong anywhere else either.

References

Endemic fauna of Kenya Monotypic Araneomorphae genera Spiders of Africa Taxa named by Lucien Berland Tetrablemmidae {{Tetrablemmidae-stub

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