Ricinoides
Genus of spider-like animals
| Ricinoides | |
|---|---|
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| Male Ricinoides karschii from Cameroon | |
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| Ricinoides atewa nymph from Ghana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Ricinulei |
| Family: | Ricinoididae |
| Genus: | Ricinoides Ewing, 1929 |
| Type species | |
| Ricinoides westermannii (Guérin-Méneville, 1838) | |
| Species | |
| 16, see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Ricinoides is an arthropod genus in the family Ricinoididae, first described by Henry Ewing in 1929.[2]
Distribution
Species in this genus are found in West Africa.
Species
As of October 2022[update] it contains sixteen species:[3]
- Ricinoides afzelii (Thorell, 1892) — Ghana, Guinea, Sierra Leone
- Ricinoides atewa Naskrecki, 2008 — Ghana
- Ricinoides crassipalpe (Hansen & Sørensen, 1904) — Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea
- Ricinoides eburneus Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Côte d’Ivoire
- Ricinoides feae (Hansen, 1921) — Guinea, Guinea-Bissau
- Ricinoides hanseni Legg, 1976 — Sierra Leone
- Ricinoides iita Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Nigeria
- Ricinoides kakum Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Ghana
- Ricinoides karschii (Hansen & Sørensen, 1904) — Cameroon, Congo, Gabon
- Ricinoides leonensis Legg, 1978 — Sierra Leone
- Ricinoides megahanseni Legg, 1982 — Côte d’Ivoire
- Ricinoides nzerekorensis Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Guinea
- Ricinoides olounoua Legg, 1978 — Cameroon
- Ricinoides sjostedtii (Hansen & Sørensen, 1904) — Cameroon, Nigeria
- Ricinoides taii Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Côte d’Ivoire
- Ricinoides westermannii (Guérin-Méneville, 1838) — Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo
References
- ^ Hansen, Hans; Sörensen, William (1904). On two orders of Arachnida. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- ^ Ewing, Henry (1929). "A synopsis of the American arachnids of the primitive order Ricinulei". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 22 (4): 583–600. doi:10.1093/aesa/22.4.583.
- ^ "Ricinoides Ewing, 1929". World Ricinulei Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
