Benoitia Explained

Benoitia is a genus of funnel weavers first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.^[1]

Species

, the World Spider Catalog accepted 10 species:^[2]

• Benoitia agraulosa (Wang & Wang, 1991) – China
• Benoitia bornemiszai (Caporiacco, 1947) – East Africa
• Benoitia deserticola (Simon, 1910) – Namibia, Botswana
• Benoitia lepida (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) – Spain, North Africa, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran
• Benoitia ocellata (Pocock, 1900) – South Africa
• Benoitia raymondeae (Lessert, 1915) – East Africa
• Benoitia rhodesiae (Pocock, 1901) – Southern Africa
• Benoitia tadzhika (Andreeva, 1976) – European Russia to Central Asia
• Benoitia timida (Audouin, 1826) – Egypt, Israel
• Benoitia upembana (Roewer, 1955) – Congo

Notes and References

1. Lehtinen. P. T.. 1967. Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici. 199–468. 4.
2. Web site: Gen. Benoitia Lehtinen, 1967. World Spider Catalog. 2021-08-20 . Natural History Museum Bern.