{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = | image = Kilima decens 299426960 539438130.jpg | image_caption = Female ''K. decens'' | image2 = Kilima decens 313488082 566124962.jpg | image2_caption = Female ''K. decens'' | taxon = Kilima | authority = Grasshoff, 1970<ref name=wsc /> | type_species = ''K. decens'' | type_species_authority = (Blackwall, 1866) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = {{Specieslist | K. conspersa|Grasshoff, 1970 | K. decens|(Blackwall, 1866) | K. griseovariegata|(Tullgren, 1910) }} }}

'''''Kilima''''' is a genus of African orb-weaver spiders first described by M. Grasshoff in 1970.<ref name=Gras1970 /> {{as of|2019|04}} it contains three species.<ref name=wsc />

==Description== {{see also|Glossary of spider terms}}

Total length of females and males is 7-9 mm. The carapace is elongate with dark median longitudinal band. The abdomen has a narrow orange band bordered by a thin band that varies from white to brown followed by a broader dark brown band with scalloped edge. The legs are similar to the carapace in colour. The genus resembles the grassland species ''Neoscona moreli'', but in this genus the abdominal longitudinal bands are in almost a straight line.<ref name="dippenaar2022" />

==Species== {{as of|2025|9}}, this genus includes three species:<ref name="wsc" /> {{Div col}} * ''Kilima conspersa'' <small>Grasshoff, 1970</small> – DR Congo * ''Kilima decens'' <small>(Blackwall, 1866)</small> – Central, East, Southern Africa, Seychelles (type species) * ''Kilima griseovariegata'' <small>(Tullgren, 1910)</small> – Central, East Africa, Yemen {{Div col end}}

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="wsc">{{cite web | url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/338 | title=Genus Kilima | publisher=World Spider Catalog | doi=10.24436/2 | accessdate=26 September 2025}}</ref> <ref name="dippenaar2022">{{cite book | last1=Dippenaar-Schoeman | first1=A.S. | last2=Haddad | first2=C.R. | last3=Foord | first3=S.H. | last4=Lotz | first4=L.N. | last5=Webb | first5=P. | year=2022 | title=The Araneidae of South Africa. Version 2: part 2 (E-Ne) | publisher=South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide | pages=37 | doi=10.5281/zenodo.6619195}}{{Creative Commons text attribution notice|cc=by4}}</ref> <ref name=Gras1970>{{cite journal| last=Grasshoff| first=M.| year=1970| title=Die Gattung ''Kilima'' n. gen. (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae).| journal=Senckenbergiana Biologica| pages=119–128| volume=51}}</ref> }}

==External links== * {{inaturalist taxon}}

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Category:Araneidae Category:Araneomorphae genera Category:Spiders of Africa