Quamtana

African spotted cellar spiders
Temporal range:
female Q. entabeni with egg sac
Q. mabusai
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pholcidae
Genus: Quamtana
Huber, 2003[1]
Type species
Q. merwei
Huber, 2003
Species

26, see text

Quamtana is a genus of African cellar spiders known as African spotted cellar spiders, that was first described by Bernhard A. Huber in 2003.[2]

All described species are found in Africa, with most of them endemic to South Africa.[1]

Species

  • Q. entabeni
  • Q. mabusai
  • Q. hectori

As of October 2025, this genus includes 26 species:[1]

  • Quamtana biena Huber, 2003 – Rep. Congo
  • Quamtana bonamanzi Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana ciliata (Lawrence, 1938) – South Africa
  • Quamtana embuleni Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana entabeni Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana filmeri Huber, 2003 – South Africa, Lesotho
  • Quamtana hectori Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana kabale Huber, 2003 – Uganda
  • Quamtana kitahurira Huber, 2003 – Guinea, Angola, Uganda, Burundi, DR Congo
  • Quamtana knysna Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana lajuma Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana leleupi Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana leptopholcica (Strand, 1909) – South Africa
  • Quamtana lotzi Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana mabusai Huber, 2003 – South Africa, Eswatini
  • Quamtana mbaba Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana merwei Huber, 2003 – South Africa (type species)
  • Quamtana meyeri Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana molimo Huber, 2003 – Lesotho
  • Quamtana nandi Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana nyahururu Huber & Warui, 2012 – Kenya, Tanzania
  • Quamtana nylsvley Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana oku Huber, 2003 – Cameroon
  • Quamtana tsui Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana umzinto Huber, 2003 – South Africa
  • Quamtana vidal Huber, 2003 – South Africa

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Quamtana Huber, 2003". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-18.
  2. ^ Huber, B. A. (2003). "Southern African pholcid spiders: revision and cladistic analysis of Quamtana gen. nov. and Spermophora Hentz (Araneae: Pholcidae), with notes on male-female covariation". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 139: 477–527. doi:10.1046/j.0024-4082.2003.00082.x.


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