Quamtana Explained

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

Species

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

• Quamtana biena Huber, 2003 – Congo
• Quamtana bonamanzi Huber, 2003 – South Africa
• Quamtana ciliata (Lawrence, 1938) – South Africa
• Quamtana embuleni Huber, 2003 – South Africa
• Quamtana entabeni Huber, 2003 – South Africa
• Quamtana filmeri Huber, 2003 – South Africa, Lesotho
• Quamtana hectori Huber, 2003 – South Africa
• Quamtana kabale Huber, 2003 – Uganda
• Quamtana kitahurira Huber, 2003 – Guinea, Angola, Uganda, Burundi, Congo
• Quamtana knysna Huber, 2003 – South Africa
• Quamtana lajuma Huber, 2003 – South Africa
• Quamtana leleupi Huber, 2003 – South Africa
• Quamtana leptopholcica (Strand, 1909) – South Africa
• Quamtana lotzi Huber, 2003 – South Africa
• Quamtana mabusai Huber, 2003 – South Africa, Swaziland
• Quamtana mbaba Huber, 2003 – South Africa
• Quamtana merwei Huber, 2003 (type) – South Africa
• Quamtana meyeri Huber, 2003 – South Africa
• Quamtana molimo Huber, 2003 – Lesotho
• Quamtana nandi Huber, 2003 – South Africa
• Quamtana nyahururu Huber & Warui, 2012 – Kenya, Tanzania
• Quamtana nylsvley Huber, 2003 – South Africa
• Quamtana oku Huber, 2003 – Cameroon
• Quamtana tsui Huber, 2003 – South Africa
• Quamtana umzinto Huber, 2003 – South Africa
• Quamtana vidal Huber, 2003 – South Africa

See also

• List of Pholcidae species

Notes and References

1. Huber. B. A.. 2003. Southern African pholcid spiders: revision and cladistic analysis of Quamtana gen. nov. and Spermophora Hentz (Araneae: Pholcidae), with notes on male-female covariation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 477–527. 139 . 10.1046/j.0024-4082.2003.00082.x . free.
2. Web site: Gen. Quamtana Huber, 2003. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-05. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.