title: Charminus
text: # Charminus
  
  Charminus is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1899.
  
  ## Species
  
  As of June 2019 it contains nine species and one subspecies, found only in Africa:
  
  * Charminus aethiopicus (Caporiacco, 1939) – Ethiopia, Kenya
  * Charminus ambiguus (Lessert, 1925) – East, Southern Africa
     * Charminus a. concolor (Caporiacco, 1947) – East Africa
  * Charminus atomarius (Lawrence, 1942) – Central, East, Southern Africa
  * Charminus bifidus Blandin, 1978 – Rwanda
  * Charminus camerunensis Thorell, 1899 (type) – West, Central Africa
  * Charminus marfieldi (Roewer, 1955) – West, Central Africa
  * Charminus minor (Lessert, 1928) – Ivory Coast, Congo
  * Charminus natalensis (Lawrence, 1947) – South Africa
  * Charminus rotundus Blandin, 1978 – Congo
  