Quamtana Huber, 2003

Bernhard A. Huber & Charles M. Warui, 2012, East African pholcid spiders: an overview, with descriptions of eight new species (Araneae, Pholcidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 29 (29), pp. 1-44 : 12

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Quamtana is most diverse in southern Africa, but a few species occur as far north as Cameroon, Congo DR, Uganda ( Huber 2003b), and Kenya (herein). Four species are currently known from East Africa ( Fig. 25 View Figs 24 - 27 ). The new species Q. nyahururu represents the first record of the genus for Kenya and Tanzania.

References

Huber B. A. 2003 a. High species diversity in one of the dominant groups of spiders in East African montane forests (Araneae: Pholcidae: Buitinga n. gen., Spermophora Hentz). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 137: 555 - 619. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1046 / j. 1096 - 3642.2003.00053. x

Huber B. A. 2003 b. Southern African pholcid spiders: revision and cladistic analysis of Quamtana n. gen. and Spermophora Hentz (Araneae: Pholcidae), with notes on male-female covariation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139: 477 - 527. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1046 / j. 0024 - 4082.2003.00082. x

Figures

Figs 24 - 27. Known distributions of the genera Physocyclus, Quamtana, Smeringopus and Spermophora in East Africa. For detailed maps of Quamtana see Huber (2003 b), of Smeringopus see Huber (2012) and of Spermophora see Huber (2003 a). Squares: unidentified / undescribed specimens.