Species list, Checklist of Order Araneae (Spider) for Eastern Province (Kenya)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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Checklist for Order Araneae Clerck, 1757 (Spider)
and region Eastern Province (Kenya)

Class	Arachnida Lamarck, 1801 Arachnids	8 13 9	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Micrura Ehrenberg, 1831	7 9 5	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Megoperculata Börner, 1902	4 4 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Araneae Clerck, 1757 Spider, Spiders, True Spiders	4 4 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Eastern Province (Kenya)
4 Families width 4 Species

Araneidae Simon, 1895	Golden orb web spiders	1	Species	Taxom
Theraphosidae Thorell, 1870	Bird-eating spiders	1	Species	Taxom
Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833	Cobweb And Widow Spiders	1	Species	Taxom
Gnaphosidae (Pocock, 1898)	Flat-bellied ground spiders	1	Species	Taxom

Genera for Eastern Province (Kenya)
4 Genera with 4 Species

Argiope Audouin, 1805	Garden orbweavers	1	Species	Taxom
Eucratoscelus Pocock, 1873		1	Species	Taxom
Gmogala Keyserling, 1890		1	Species	Taxom
Zelotes Gistel, 1833		1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Eastern Province (Kenya)
4 Species

Argiope australis Charles Atha..., 1805
Eucratoscelus constrictus Gerstäcker, 1873
Gmogala scarabaeus Eugen von Ke..., 1890
Zelotes subterraneus (C. L. Koch, 1833)	⇒ Zelotes fratris Chamberlin, 1920

Subnodes of Araneae with occurrences in Eastern Province (Kenya)

Suborder	Araneomorphae Smith, 1902 True Spiders	3 3 3	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Mygalomorphae Pocock, 1892 Mygalomorphs, Primitive spiders	1 1 1	Family Genus Species	Taxom

Araneae (Clerck 1757)

Links, sources and further information

Araneae at artfakta.se
Araneae at biodiversity.org.au
Araneae at dyntaxa.se
Araneae at gbif.org
Araneae at irmng.org
Araneae at itis.gov
Araneae at marinespecies.org