''Ricinoides atewa'' is a ricinuleid of the Ricinoididae family found in

Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...

. It is known to inhabit evergreen forests in eastern Ghana, including the

Atewa Range Forest Reserve The Atewa Range Forest Reserve (also called the Atiwa-Atwaredu ranges) is in the Akyem Abuakwa region of southeastern Ghana, near the town of Kibibr>and south-west of the Kwahu Plateau which forms the south-west boundary of Lake Volta. The ran ...

from which it takes its specific epithet. It is a dark reddish brown arachnid densely covered in short, translucent setae with a broad cucullus. At 9.63 mm long, ''Ricinoides atewa'' is one of the world's largest ricinuleids, part of a group of nine West African species referred to as the 'giant' ricinuleids.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q2463276 Ricinulei Animals described in 2008 Invertebrates of West Africa