Afrilobus is a genus of African araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by C. E. Griswold & Norman I. Platnick in 1987.[2] As of June 2019[update] it contains only three species, found only in Africa and South Africa: A. australis, A. capensis, and A. jocquei.[1]
| Afrilobus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Orsolobidae |
| Genus: | Afrilobus Griswold & Platnick, 1987[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. capensis Griswold & Platnick, 1987 | |
| Species | |
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