Ninetis

Ninetis is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1890.^[3]

Ninetis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Pholcidae
Genus:	Ninetis Simon, 1890[1]
Type species
N. subtilissima Simon, 1890
Species
6, see text
Synonyms[1]
Myrmidonella Berland, 1920[2]

Species

As of June 2019^[update] it contains six species, found only in Africa and Yemen:^[1]

• Ninetis faro Huber, 2014 – Cameroon
• Ninetis minuta (Berland, 1920) – Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania
• Ninetis namibiae Huber, 2000 – Namibia
• Ninetis russellsmithi Huber, 2002 – Malawi
• Ninetis subtilissima Simon, 1890 (type) – Yemen
• Ninetis toliara Huber & El-Hennawy, 2007 – Madagascar

See also

• List of Pholcidae species

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Ninetis Simon, 1890". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
2. Huber, B. A. (2000). "New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): A revision at generic level". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 254: 80. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)254<0001:NWPSAP>2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/1601.
3. Simon, E. (1890). "Etudes arachnologiques. 22e Mémoire. XXXIV. Etude sur les arachnides de l'Yemen". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 10 (6): 77–124.