Mystaria (spider)

Mystaria
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Thomisidae
Genus:	Mystaria Simon, 1895[1]
Type species
M. rufolimbata Simon, 1895
Species
15, see text
Synonyms[1]
Paramystaria

Mystaria is a genus of African crab spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895.^[2]

As of April 2019^[update] it contains fifteen species:^[1]

• Mystaria budongo Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda
• Mystaria decorata (Lessert, 1919) — East Africa
• Mystaria flavoguttata (Lawrence, 1952) — Congo, South Africa
• Mystaria irmatrix Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — Mozambique, South Africa
• Mystaria lata (Lawrence, 1927) — Namibia, South Africa
• Mystaria lindaicapensis Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — South Africa
• Mystaria mnyama Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — South Africa
• Mystaria occidentalis (Millot, 1942) — Guinea, Cameroon, Congo, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda
• Mystaria oreadae Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — Rwanda, Congo
• Mystaria rufolimbata Simon, 1895 — Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Congo, Gabon, Mozambique, South Africa
• Mystaria savannensis Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa
• Mystaria soleil Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — Uganda, Kenya
• Mystaria stakesbyi Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 — Congo, Liberia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
• Mystaria variabilis (Lessert, 1919) — Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda
  • Mystaria v. delesserti (Caporiacco, 1949) — Kenya

"Mystaria" at the Encyclopedia of Life