Leroya

Leroya is a genus of African crab spiders first described by A. S. H. Lewis & A. S. Dippenaar-Schoeman in 2014.[2] As of April 2019 it contains only two species.[1]

For the flowering plant genus, see Pyrostria.

Leroya
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Leroya
Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014[1]
Type species
L. silva Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014
Species
  • L. silva Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — Congo, Rwanda, Uganda
  • L. unicolor (Simon, 1895) — Sierra Leone, Congo, Ivory Coast

References
  1. "Gen. Leroya Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  2. Lewis, A. S. H.; Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (2014). "Revision of the spider genus Mystaria Simon, 1895 (Araneae: Thomisidae) and the description of a new genus from the Afrotropical region". Zootaxa. 3873 (2): 101–144. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3873.2.1. hdl:2263/50481.

"Leroya" at the Encyclopedia of Life


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