Cambalida fulvipes
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| Common Cambalida Dark Sac Spider | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Corinnidae |
| Genus: | Cambalida |
| Species: | C. fulvipes |
| Binomial name | |
| Cambalida fulvipes | |
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Cambalida fulvipes is a species of spider in the family Corinnidae.[2] It is widely distributed throughout the Afrotropical Region and is commonly known as Common Cambalida dark sac spider.[3]
Cambalida fulvipes is widely distributed throughout the Afrotropical Region. In South Africa, it is known from all nine provinces at altitudes ranging from 16 to 1,722 m above sea level.[3]
Habitat and ecology
The species is a free-living ground-dweller that occupies the greatest range of habitats among Cambalida species, including tropical and temperate forests and the Savanna, Grassland, Indian Ocean Coastal Belt, Nama Karoo and Fynbos biomes. The species has also been sampled from maize fields and pistachio orchards.[3]
Description
Cambalida fulvipes is known from both sexes and was redescribed by Haddad in 2012.[3]
