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Solpugema
Genus of camel spiders

Solpugema is a genus of solpugid camel spiders, first described by Carl Friedrich Roewer in 1933.
01Species
As of August 2023, the World Solifugae Catalog accepts the following twenty-nine species:
- Solpugema aethiops Lawrence, 1967, Namibia
- Solpugema brachyceras (Lawrence, 1931), South Africa
- Solpugema broadleyi Lawrence, 1965, Zimbabwe
- Solpugema calycicornis (Lawrence, 1929), South Africa
- Solpugema coquinae (Hewitt, 1914), South Africa
- Solpugema cycloceras (Lawrence, 1931), South Africa
- Solpugema derbiana (Pocock, 1895), South Africa
- Solpugema erythronota (Kraepelin, 1900), South Africa
- Solpugema erythronotoides (Hewitt, 1919), South Africa
- Solpugema fissicornis Lawrence, 1968, South Africa
- Solpugema genucornis (Lawrence, 1935), Namibia, South Africa
- Solpugema hamata (Hewitt, 1914), South Africa
- Solpugema hiatidens Lawrence, 1960, Angola
- Solpugema hostilis (White, 1846), Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa, Zimbabwe
- Solpugema intermedia (Lawrence, 1929), South Africa
- Solpugema junodi (Purcell, 1903), South Africa
- Solpugema krugeri Lawrence, 1964, South Africa
- Solpugema lateralis (C.L. Koch, 1842), Namibia, South Africa
- Solpugema maraisi (Hewitt, 1913), South Africa
- Solpugema marshalli (Pocock, 1895), South Africa, Zimbabwe
- Solpugema montana (Lawrence, 1929), South Africa
- Solpugema phylloceras (Lawrence, 1929), South Africa
- Solpugema scopulata (Karsch, 1880), South Africa
- Solpugema spectralis (Purcell, 1899), South Africa
- Solpugema stiloceras (Lawrence, 1929), South Africa
- Solpugema tookei (Hewitt, 1919), South Africa
- Solpugema tubicen (Kraepelin, 1911), South Africa, Zimbabwe
- Solpugema vincta (C.L. Koch, 1842), Angola, South Africa
- Solpugema whartoni Harvey, 2002, Namibia
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