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Pseudauximus

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Pseudauximus is an African endemic genus of spiders in the family Macrobunidae, known as hackled mesh-web weavers. All three species are endemic to South Africa.

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  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyAmaurobiidae

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Pseudauximus
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Pseudauximus is an African endemic genus of spiders in the family Macrobunidae, known as hackled mesh-web weavers. All three species are endemic to South Africa.

==Taxonomy== The genus was originally described by Eugène Simon in 1902. It was initially placed in the Dictynidae, but was transferred to the Amaurobiidae by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967. More recently, it has been transferred to the Macrobunidae by Gorneau et al. (2023).

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