Ricinoides

Ricinoides is an arthropod genus in the family Ricinoididae, first described by Henry Ewing in 1929.[2]

Ricinoides
Male Ricinoides karschii from Cameroon
Ricinoides atewa nymph from Ghana
Scientific classification Edit this 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
  • Cryptostemma Guérin-Méneville, 1838[1]

Distribution

Species in this genus are found in West Africa.

Species

As of October 2022 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
  1. Hansen, Hans; Sörensen, William (1904). On two orders of Arachnida. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  2. 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.
  3. "Ricinoides Ewing, 1929". World Ricinulei Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
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