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Diploglena dippenaarae

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Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Chelicerata
Class:Arachnida
Order:Araneae
Dippenaar's Two-Eyed Orange Lungless Spider
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Caponiidae
Genus: Diploglena
Species:
D. dippenaarae
Binomial name
Diploglena dippenaarae
Haddad, 2015

Diploglena dippenaarae is a species of spider of the genus Diploglena. It is endemic to the Western Cape province of South Africa.[1]

The species is named in honour of Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman, a prominent South African arachnologist who has made significant contributions to the study of African spiders.

Distribution

Diploglena dippenaarae is known only from two localities near Saldanha Bay: Jacobsbaai and Saldanha.[2] The species appears to have a very restricted distribution.[2]

Habitat

The species is a free-living ground dweller sampled at night from leaf litter in coastal Fynbos Biome.[2]

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