Genus: Bambara Botero-Trujillo & Prendini, 2026 | Family: Ricinoididae Ewing, 1929 | Order: Ricinulei Thorell, 1876

Bambara hanseni (Legg, 1976)

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Ricinoides hanseni

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:a60dacd7-d793-4e18-b3f5-1c5ec4eb3501

Genus type of Bambara Botero-Trujillo & Prendini, 2026

Taxonomic references

Ricinoides hanseni

Legg, 1976: 4–50, figs 1–43, plates 1–6 original description
Dumitresco and Juvara-Balş, 1977c: n/a, fig. 2
Legg, 1977b: 51–61, figs 1a–e, 2a–d, 3a–c, 4–5, plates Ia–b, IIa–b, III
Barnes, 1987: n/a, fig. 13–40
Ax, 2001: n/a, figs 58c, e
Harvey, 2003c: 183

Bambara hanseni (Legg):

Botero-Trujillo and Prendini, 2026: 30-32, Figs 4, 11C, 14B, 17, 23A, Table 1

Distribution
Distribution table

Realm: Western Africa

Sierra Leone
Type locality: Botanical Garden, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Western Area, Sierra Leone.

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Fourah Bay College 8.483333 -13.216666
Type repository
  • Holotype British Museum of Natural History (BMNH) (= NHM, Natural History Museum), London, UK 1♂ (BMNH 13588962)
Zoobank LSID

ACB2FBB8-1BFC-4A63-B15E-8C5284DF671D

References

Ax, P. (2001). Multicellular animals: the phylogenetic system of the Metazoa. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York II. -- Show included taxa

Barnes, R.D. (1987). Invertebrate zoology. Saunders College Publishing, Philadelphia, etc.. [fifth edition] -- Show included taxa

Dumitresco, M. & Juvara-Balş, I. (1977c). L'importance de la structure des organes copulateurs femelles dans la systématique des Ricinulei. Travaux de l'Institute de Spéologie "Émile Racovitza" 16: 259–261. -- Show included taxa

Harvey, M.S. (2003c). Catalogue of the smaller arachnid orders of the world: Amblypygi, Uropygi, Schizomida, Palpigradi, Ricinulei and Solifugae. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne. -- Show included taxa

Legg, G. (1976). The external morphology of a new species of ricinuleid (Arachnida) from Sierra Leone. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 59: 1–58. ZooBank: 27E9C6C1-2F04-4AC1-B0CC-ECAAF2E4AA9D doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1976.tb01007.x -- Show included taxa

Legg, G. (1977b). Sperm transfer and mating in Ricinoides hanseni (Ricinulei: Arachnida). Journal of Zoology, London 182: 51–61. -- Show included taxa

Botero-Trujillo, R. & Prendini, L. (2026). Phylogeny and revised generic classification of African Ricinulei (Ricinoididae), descriptions of five new genera, three new species, and comparative morphology of the male copulatory apparatus. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 480: 1–92. doi: 10.1206/0003-0090.480.1.1 -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Old value
2026-10-23 Species updated Old value
2026-10-23 Species updated Old value
2026-10-23 New taxonomic reference entry Botero-Trujillo and Prendini, 2026