Quamtana

Quamtana is a genus of African cellar spiders known as African spotted cellar spiders, that was first described by Bernhard A. Huber in 2003.

African spotted cellar spiders Temporal range:
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

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, 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

External links

• Citizen science observations for Quamtana at iNaturalist