Buitinga Explained

Buitinga is a genus of African cellar spiders that was first described by B. A. Huber in 2003.^[1]

Species

it contains twenty-two species, found only in Africa:^[2]

• Buitinga amani Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
• Buitinga asax Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
• Buitinga batwa Huber & Warui, 2012 – Uganda
• Buitinga buhoma Huber, 2003 – Uganda
• Buitinga ensifera (Tullgren, 1910) – Tanzania
• Buitinga globosa (Tullgren, 1910) – Tanzania
• Buitinga griswoldi Huber, 2003 – Uganda
• Buitinga ifrit Huber & Cazanove, 2023 – Réunion
• Buitinga kadogo Huber, 2003 (type) – Tanzania
• Buitinga kanzuiri Huber, 2003 – Congo
• Buitinga kihanga Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
• Buitinga kikura Huber, 2003 – Congo
• Buitinga lakilingo Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
• Buitinga mazumbai Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
• Buitinga mbomole Huber, 2003 – Kenya, Tanzania
• Buitinga mulanje Huber, 2003 – Malawi
• Buitinga nigrescens (Berland, 1920) – Kenya, Tanzania
• Buitinga ruhiza Huber, 2003 – Uganda
• Buitinga ruwenzori Huber, 2003 – Congo, Uganda
• Buitinga safura Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
• Buitinga tingatingai Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
• Buitinga uzungwa Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
• Buitinga wataita Huber & Warui, 2012 – Kenya

See also

• List of Pholcidae species

Notes and References

1. Huber. B. A.. 2003. High species diversity in one of the dominant groups of spiders in East African montane forests (Aranae: Pholcidae: Buitinga n. gen., Spermophora Hentz). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 555–619. 137.
2. Web site: Gen. Buitinga Huber, 2003. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-04. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.