Charminus

Charminus is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1899.^[2]

Charminus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Pisauridae
Genus:	Charminus Thorell, 1899[1]
Type species
C. camerunensis Thorell, 1899
Species
9, see text

Species

As of June 2019^[update] it contains nine species and one subspecies, found only in Africa:^[1]

• Charminus aethiopicus (Caporiacco, 1939) – Ethiopia, Kenya
• Charminus ambiguus (Lessert, 1925) – East, Southern Africa
  • Charminus a. concolor (Caporiacco, 1947) – East Africa
• Charminus atomarius (Lawrence, 1942) – Central, East, Southern Africa
• Charminus bifidus Blandin, 1978 – Rwanda
• Charminus camerunensis Thorell, 1899 (type) – West, Central Africa
• Charminus marfieldi (Roewer, 1955) – West, Central Africa
• Charminus minor (Lessert, 1928) – Ivory Coast, Congo
• Charminus natalensis (Lawrence, 1947) – South Africa
• Charminus rotundus Blandin, 1978 – Congo

See also

• List of Pisauridae species