Quamtana

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

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

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