Ibala

Ibala is a genus of African ground spiders that was first described by M. J. FitzPatrick in 2009.^[2]

Ibala
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Gnaphosidae
Genus:	Ibala Fitzpatrick, 2009[1]
Type species
I. arcus (Tucker, 1923)
Species
17, see text

A female Ibala minshullae in Shangani, Zimbabwe

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains seventeen species:^[1]

• Ibala arcus (Tucker, 1923) (type) – Zimbabwe, South Africa
• Ibala bilinearis (Tucker, 1923) – South Africa
• Ibala bulawayensis (Tucker, 1923) – Zimbabwe, South Africa
• Ibala declani Fitzpatrick, 2009 – Zimbabwe
• Ibala gonono Fitzpatrick, 2009 – Zimbabwe
• Ibala hessei (Lawrence, 1928) – Namibia
• Ibala isikela Fitzpatrick, 2009 – Zambia, Zimbabwe
• Ibala kaokoensis (Lawrence, 1928) – Namibia
• Ibala kevini Fitzpatrick, 2009 – Zimbabwe
• Ibala kylae Fitzpatrick, 2009 – Zimbabwe
• Ibala lapidaria (Lawrence, 1928) – Namibia
• Ibala mabalauta Fitzpatrick, 2009 – Zimbabwe
• Ibala minshullae Fitzpatrick, 2009 – Zimbabwe
• Ibala okorosave Fitzpatrick, 2009 – Namibia
• Ibala omuramba (Lawrence, 1927) – Namibia
• Ibala quadrativulva (Lawrence, 1927) – Namibia
• Ibala robinsoni Fitzpatrick, 2009 – Zimbabwe, Botswana