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Afrilobus
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Afrilobus

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. As of June 2019 it contains only three species, found only in Africa and South Africa: A. australis, A. capensis, and A. jocquei.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Afrilobus jocquei

speciesAfrilobus jocquei

Afrilobus australis

speciesAfrilobus australis

Afrilobus capensis

speciesAfrilobus capensis

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 421186.