Paradonea

Paradonea is a genus of African velvet spiders that was first described by R. F. Lawrence in 1968.^[2]

Paradonea
P. presleyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Eresidae
Genus:	Paradonea Lawrence, 1968[1]
Type species
P. striatipes Lawrence, 1968
Species
5, see text

Species

As of September 2025^[update] it contains five species:^[1]

• Paradonea parva (Tucker, 1920) – Namibia, Botswana, South Africa
• Paradonea presleyi Miller, Griswold, Scharff, Řezáč, Szűts & Marhabaie, 2012 – Zimbabwe, South Africa
• Paradonea splendens (Lawrence, 1936) – Botswana, South Africa
• Paradonea striatipes Lawrence, 1968 (type) – Namibia, South Africa
• Paradonea variegata (Purcell, 1904) – Namibia, Botswana, South Africa