Spermophora Hentz, 1841

Bernhard A. Huber & Charles M. Warui, 2012, East African pholcid spiders: an overview, with descriptions of eight new species (Araneae, Pholcidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 29 (29), pp. 1-44 : 14

Spermophora Hentz, 1841

Spermophora is in fact an Asian genus ( Huber 2005) and African representatives have tentatively been assigned to it for lack of a better hypothesis ( Huber 2003a). Recent molecular data ( Dimitrov et al. 2012) suggest that at least the six Kenyan species ( Fig. 27 ) are closely related to the East African genus Buitinga . Twelve East African species are currently assigned to Spermophora .

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Figs 24 - 27. Known distributions of the genera Physocyclus, Quamtana, Smeringopus and Spermophora in East Africa. For detailed maps of Quamtana see Huber (2003 b), of Smeringopus see Huber (2012) and of Spermophora see Huber (2003 a). Squares: unidentified / undescribed specimens.