Species list, Checklist of Superfamily Sparassoidea for Eastern Cape (Cape)

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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INSECTOIDGERENGDARK LIGHT

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Checklist for Superfamily Sparassoidea Bertkau, 1872
and region Eastern Cape (Cape)

Class	Arachnida Lamarck, 1801 Arachnids	143 456 519	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Micrura Ehrenberg, 1831	115 388 396	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Megoperculata Börner, 1902	67 312 326	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Araneae Clerck, 1757 Spider, Spiders, True Spiders	66 311 325	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Araneomorphae Smith, 1902 True Spiders	53 285 273	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Araneomorphi Smith, 1902	52 283 270	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Sparassoidea Bertkau, 1872	1 8 5	Family Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Eastern Cape
1 Family width 5 Species

Sparassidae Bertkau, 1872

Giant crab spiders

Species

Taxom

Genera for Eastern Cape
8 Genera with 5 Species

Heteropoda Latreille, 1901		1	Species	Taxom
Leucorchestris Lawrence, 1962		0	Species	Taxom
Olios Walckenaer, 1890		1	Species	Taxom
Palystella Lawrence, 1928		0	Species	Taxom
Palystes L. Koch, 1875	Lizard-eating spiders	3	Species	Taxom
Panaretella Lawrence, 1937		0	Species	Taxom
Parapalystes Croeser, 1996		0	Species	Taxom
Pseudomicrommata Järvi, 1914		0	Species	Taxom

Species list for Eastern Cape
5 Species

Heteropoda lentula Mary Agard P..., 1901	Pharaoh ant
Olios acolastus Tord Tamerla..., 1890
Palystes karooensis Croeser, 1996
Palystes perornatus Mary Agard P..., 1900	Shyleaf
Palystes superciliosus Koch, 1875	Common rain spider

Subnodes of Sparassoidea with occurrences in Eastern Cape

Family

Sparassidae
Bertkau, 1872
Giant crab spiders, Huntsman spiders, Huntsmans, Wood spiders

8
5

Genera
Species

Taxom