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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: | Pholcidae |
| Genus: | Buitinga Huber, 2003 |
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| B. kadogo Huber, 2003 | |
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Buitinga is a genus of African cellar spiders that was first described by B. A. Huber in 2003.
Species
As of June 2019 it contains twenty-two species, found only in Africa:
- Buitinga amani Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
- Buitinga asax Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
- Buitinga batwa Huber & Warui, 2012 – Uganda
- Buitinga buhoma Huber, 2003 – Uganda
- Buitinga ensifera (Tullgren, 1910) – Tanzania
- Buitinga globosa (Tullgren, 1910) – Tanzania
- Buitinga griswoldi Huber, 2003 – Uganda
- Buitinga ifrit Huber & Cazanove, 2023 – Réunion
- Buitinga kadogo Huber, 2003 (type) – Tanzania
- Buitinga kanzuiri Huber, 2003 – Congo
- Buitinga kihanga Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
- Buitinga kikura Huber, 2003 – Congo
- Buitinga lakilingo Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
- Buitinga mazumbai Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
- Buitinga mbomole Huber, 2003 – Kenya, Tanzania
- Buitinga mulanje Huber, 2003 – Malawi
- Buitinga nigrescens (Berland, 1920) – Kenya, Tanzania
- Buitinga ruhiza Huber, 2003 – Uganda
- Buitinga ruwenzori Huber, 2003 – Congo, Uganda
- Buitinga safura Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
- Buitinga tingatingai Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
- Buitinga uzungwa Huber, 2003 – Tanzania
- Buitinga wataita Huber & Warui, 2012 – Kenya
See also
References
- ^ "Gen. Buitinga Huber, 2003". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
- Huber, B. A. (2003). "High species diversity in one of the dominant groups of spiders in East African montane forests (Aranae: Pholcidae: Buitinga n. gen., Spermophora Hentz)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 137: 555–619.
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