Maypacius is a genus of African nursery web spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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)
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Species
editAs 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
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Maypacius Simon, 1898". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2024-10-26.
- ^ Simon, E. (1898). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux des familles des Agelenidae, Pisauridae, Lycosidae et Oxyopidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 42: 5–34.