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Palfuria is a spider genus of the family Zodariidae with nine described species from southern Africa.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyZodariidae
Observations recorded48

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
13
Family
Zodariidae
Collections
ARC-PPRI
Recorded in
South Africa, Botswana

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Palfuria is a spider genus of the family Zodariidae with nine described species from southern Africa.

==Distribution== Five species (P. retusa, P. spirembolus, P. gladiator, P. panner, P. harpago) are known from the southwestern part of the continent, the other species (P. gibbosa, P. helichrysorum, P. hirsuta, P. caputlari) from the eastern part. The last species is from as far north as northern Tanzania.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Palfuria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.