Smeringopina Kraus, 1957

Bernhard A. Huber, Philippe Le Gall & Jacques Francois Mavoungou, 2014, Pholcid spiders from the Lower Guinean region of Central Africa: an overview, with descriptions of seven new species (Araneae, Pholcidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 81, pp. 1-46 : 15

Smeringopina Kraus, 1957

The Guineo-Congolian genus Smeringopina has its highest diversity in Central Africa ( Huber 2013). Any Central African forest seems to contain one to three representatives of the genus, and places without known records have most probably never been searched adequately ( Fig. 32 ). Of the 44 currently known species, 37 occur in the area considered here. Except for S. fon Huber, 2013 (which ranges into West Africa) all of them are endemic to Central Africa.

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Figs 31 - 32. Known distributions of the genera Quamtana Huber, 2003 and Smeringopina Kraus, 1957 in Central Africa. For detailed distribution maps of Smeringopina species see Huber (2013).