''Maypacius'' is a
genus
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of African
nursery web spiders that was first described by
Eugène Louis Simon
Eugene is a common male given name that comes from the Greek εὐγενής (''eugenēs''), "noble", literally "well-born", from εὖ (''eu''), "well" and γένος (''genos''), "race, stock, kin".World Spider Catalog
The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature.
The WSC began as a series of ...
accepted nine species, found only in Africa:
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Maypacius bilineatus''
(Pavesi, 1895) (
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) – Central, East Africa, Madagascar
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Maypacius christophei''
Blandin, 1975 – Congo
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Maypacius curiosus''
Blandin, 1975 – Congo
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Maypacius gilloni''
Blandin, 1978 – Senegal
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Maypacius kaestneri''
Roewer, 1955 – West, Central Africa
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Maypacius petrunkevitchi''
Lessert, 1933 – Angola, Rwanda
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Maypacius roeweri''
Blandin, 1975 – Congo
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Maypacius stuhlmanni''
(Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895) – Tanzania (mainland, Zanzibar)
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Maypacius vittiger''
Simon, 1898 – Madagascar
See also
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List of Pisauridae species
This article lists all described species of the spider family Pisauridae accepted by the World Spider Catalog :
A ''Afropisaura''
'' Afropisaura'' Blandin, 1976
* '' A. ducis'' (Strand, 1913) — West, Central, East Africa
* '' A. rothiformis'' ...
References
Araneomorphae genera
Pisauridae
Spiders of Africa
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