Decorated Velvet Spiders

Paradonea is a genus of African velvet spiders that was first described by R. F. Lawrence in 1968.^[2]

Species

As of May 2019 it contains five species:^[1]

• Paradonea parva (Tucker, 1920) – Namibia, Botswana, South Africa
• Paradonea presleyi Miller, Griswold, Scharff, Řezáč, Szűts & Marhabaie, 2012 – Zimbabwe, South Africa
• Paradonea splendens (Lawrence, 1936) – Botswana, South Africa
• Paradonea striatipes Lawrence, 1968 (type) – Namibia, South Africa
• Paradonea variegata (Purcell, 1904) – Namibia, Botswana, South Africa

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