Afrilobus

Afrilobus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Orsolobidae
Genus:	Afrilobus; Griswold & Platnick, 1987
Type species
	A. capensis; Griswold & Platnick, 1987
Species
	A. australis Griswold & Platnick, 1987 – South Africa ; A. capensis Griswold & Platnick, 1987 – South Africa ; A. jocquei Griswold & Platnick, 1987 – Malawi;

Afrilobus is a genus of African araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by C. E. Griswold & Norman I. Platnick in 1987.^[2] As of June 2019^[update] it contains only three species, found only in Africa and South Africa: A. australis, A. capensis, and A. jocquei.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "Gen. Afrilobus Griswold & Platnick, 1987". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
^ Griswold, C. E.; Platnick, N. I. (1987). "On the first African spiders of the family Orsolobidae (Araneae, Dysderidae)". American Museum Novitates (2892): 1–14.

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