''Pseudartonis'' is a
genus
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of
Africa
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n
orb-weaver spiders first described by
Eugène Simon
Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist in history, ...
in 1895.
Species
it contains four species:
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Pseudartonis flavonigra''
Caporiacco, 1947 – Ethiopia
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Pseudartonis lobata''
Simon, 1909 – East Africa
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Pseudartonis occidentalis''
Simon, 1903 (
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) – Guinea-Bissau, Cameroon
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Pseudartonis semicoccinea''
Simon, 1907 – São Tomé and Príncipe
References
Araneidae
Araneidae genera
Spiders of Africa
Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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