''Cispinilus'' 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 "unispec ...

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

of Central African nursery web spiders containing the single species, ''Cispinilus flavidus''. It was first described by

Carl Friedrich Roewer Carl Friedrich Roewer (12 October 1881, in Neustrelitz – 17 June 1963) was a German arachnologist. He concentrated on harvestmen, where he described almost a third (2,260) of today's known species, but also almost 700 taxa of spiders and numer ...

in 1955, and is only found in Africa.

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Monotypic Araneomorphae genera Pisauridae Spiders of Africa Taxa named by Carl Friedrich Roewer {{Pisauridae-stub

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