Maypacius

Maypacius is a genus of African nursery web spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898.^[2]

Maypacius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Pisauridae
Genus:	Maypacius Simon, 1898[1]
Type species
M. bilineatus (Pavesi, 1895)
Species
9, see text

Species

As of October 2024^[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted nine species, found only in Africa:^[1]

• Maypacius bilineatus (Pavesi, 1895) (type) – Central, East Africa, Madagascar
• Maypacius christophei Blandin, 1975 – Congo
• Maypacius curiosus Blandin, 1975 – Congo
• Maypacius gilloni Blandin, 1978 – Senegal
• Maypacius kaestneri Roewer, 1955 – West, Central Africa
• Maypacius petrunkevitchi Lessert, 1933 – Angola, Rwanda
• Maypacius roeweri Blandin, 1975 – Congo
• Maypacius stuhlmanni (Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895) – Tanzania (mainland, Zanzibar)
• Maypacius vittiger Simon, 1898 – Madagascar

See also

• List of Pisauridae species