African Arthropods

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African Arthropods Project

African Chelicerates

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African Crustaceans

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African Hexapods

African Insects

• Diptera
  • Acalyptrate flies
• Hymenoptera
  • African Chalcidoidea
    • African Encyrtidae
    • Key to the genera of Afrotropical Encyrtidae
    • African chalcid wasps with branched antennae
  • African Aculeata
    • African potter wasps
    • South African species of Philanthus
• Lepidoptera

African Myriapods

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The extant Arthropoda of Africa can be subdivided into four Subphyla (and about 15 Classes). This classification is that followed by iNaturalist (July 2022).

African Chelicerates - Including mites, harvestmen, solifuges, spiders, tailless whip scorpions, and sea spiders.

African Crustaceans - Including branchiopods, barnacles, crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, fish lice, tongue worms, and ostracods.

African Hexapods - Including springtails and insects.

African Myriapods - Including centipedes, millipedes, pauropodans, and symphylans.

Subphylum Chelicerata

• Class Arachnida — Arachnids

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  Mites
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  Harvestmen
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  Solifuges
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  Spiders
• 
  Tailless whip scorpions

• Class Pycnogonida — Sea Siders or Pycnogonids

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  Sea Spiders

Subphylum Crustacea

• Class Branchiopoda — Branchiopods

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  Fairy shrimps

• Class Hexanauplia — Barnacles and Copepods

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  Barnacles
• 
  Copepods

• Class Malacostraca — Malacostracans, including crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, prawns, woodlice, amphipods, and mantis shrimp

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  Crabs
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  Isopods
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  Mantis shrimps

• Class Ichthyostraca — Includes Branchiura, fish lice and Pentastomida, tongue worms

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  Fish lice

• Subclass [[w:Mystacocarida|Mystacocarida] — Mystacocaridans

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  Mystacocarids

• Class Ostracoda — Ostracods

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  Ostracods
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Subphylum Hexapoda

• Class Entognatha — Entognathans, including springtails

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  Coneheads
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  Two-pronged bristletails
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  Slender springtails
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  Plump springtails
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  Globular springtails

• Class Insecta — Insects

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  Butterflies and moths
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  Beetles
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  Ants, bees, wasps, and sawflies
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  True bugs, hoppers, aphids, and allies
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  Flies

Subphylum Myriapoda

• Class Chilopoda — Centipedes

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  Tropical centipedes
• 
  Tropical centipedes
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  House centipedes

• Class Diplopoda — Millipedes

• 
  Chilognatha

• Class Pauropoda — Pauropodans

• 
  Tetramerocerata

• Class Symphyla — Symphylans

• 
  Scutigerellidae

Arthropods in South Africa

Ferncliffe Nature Reserve

See Also

• Animal Phyla/Arthropoda
• Wikipedia: Arthropoda
• Wikipedia: Africa
• Wikipedia: Afrotropical biogeographic realm
• Evolution of Arthropods - palaeontologyonline.com