Quamtana

African spotted cellar spiders Temporal range: Palaeogene– Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N

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
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.

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

Species

Q. entabeni
Q. mabusai
Q. hectori

Relationship of Quamtana species

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

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

List of Pholcidae species

References

1 2 3 "Gen. Quamtana Huber, 2003". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-18.
↑ 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.

External links

Citizen science observations for Quamtana at iNaturalist

Taxon identifiers
Quamtana	Wikidata: Q2262492 Wikispecies: Quamtana ADW: Quamtana BioLib: 465610 BOLD: 25667 CoL: 76DV EoL: 111713 GBIF (old): 2149726 iNaturalist: 421288 IRMNG: 1201636 ITIS: 849247 NBN: NHMSYS0021811521 NCBI: 285970 Open Tree of Life: 622679 Paleobiology Database: 257510 WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03557

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