Ricinoides is an arthropod genus in the family Ricinoididae, first described by Henry Ewing in 1929.[2]
Distribution
Species in this genus are found in West Africa.
Species
As of October 2022 it contains sixteen species:[3]
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Ricinoides afzelii (Thorell, 1892) — Ghana, Guinea, Sierra Leone
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Ricinoides atewa Naskrecki, 2008 — Ghana
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Ricinoides crassipalpe (Hansen & Sørensen, 1904) — Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea
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Ricinoides eburneus Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Côte d’Ivoire
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Ricinoides feae (Hansen, 1921) — Guinea, Guinea-Bissau
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Ricinoides hanseni Legg, 1976 — Sierra Leone
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Ricinoides iita Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Nigeria
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Ricinoides kakum Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Ghana
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Ricinoides karschii (Hansen & Sørensen, 1904) — Cameroon, Congo, Gabon
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Ricinoides leonensis Legg, 1978 — Sierra Leone
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Ricinoides megahanseni Legg, 1982 — Côte d’Ivoire
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Ricinoides nzerekorensis Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Guinea
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Ricinoides olounoua Legg, 1978 — Cameroon
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Ricinoides sjostedtii (Hansen & Sørensen, 1904) — Cameroon, Nigeria
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Ricinoides taii Botero-Trujillo, Sain & Prendini, 2021 — Côte d’Ivoire
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Ricinoides westermannii (Guérin-Méneville, 1838) — Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo
References
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^ Hansen, Hans; Sörensen, William (1904). On two orders of Arachnida. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
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^ Ewing, Henry (1929). "A synopsis of the American arachnids of the primitive order Ricinulei". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 22 (4): 583–600. doi:10.1093/aesa/22.4.583.
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^ "Ricinoides Ewing, 1929". World Ricinulei Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
