''Spinotrachelas'' is a

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South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...

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

Trachelidae Trachelidae is a family of Araneomorphae, araneomorph spiders (more recently evolved spiders with inward-pointing chelicerae) first described by Eugène Simon in 1897 as a subfamily called "Tracheleae" ("Trachelinae" in modern terminology). The ...

, first described by C. R. Haddad in 2006.

Species

it contains five species, all found in

: *'' Spinotrachelas capensis'' Haddad, 2006 (

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) – South Africa *'' Spinotrachelas confinis'' Lyle, 2011 – South Africa *'' Spinotrachelas montanus'' Haddad, Neethling & Lyle, 2011 – South Africa *'' Spinotrachelas namaquensis'' Lyle, 2011 – South Africa *'' Spinotrachelas similis'' Lyle, 2011 – South Africa

References

Endemic spiders of South Africa Araneomorphae genera Trachelidae {{Trachelidae-stub