Toschia
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Linyphiidae |
| Genus: | Toschia Caporiacco, 1949[1] |
| Type species | |
| T. picta Caporiacco, 1949
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| Species | |
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Toschia is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1949.[2]
Species
As of June 2019[update] it contains ten species, found in Central Africa, East Africa, China, and South Africa:[1]
- Toschia aberdarensis Holm, 1962 – Kenya
- Toschia casta Jocqué & Scharff, 1986 – Tanzania
- Toschia celans Gao, Xing & Zhu, 1996 – China
- Toschia concolor Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
- Toschia cypericola Jocqué, 1981 – Malawi
- Toschia minuta Jocqué, 1984 – South Africa
- Toschia picta Caporiacco, 1949 (type) – Congo, Kenya
- Toschia spinosa Holm, 1968 – Congo
- Toschia telekii Holm, 1962 – Kenya
- Toschia virgo Jocqué & Scharff, 1986 – Tanzania
See also
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Toschia Caporiacco, 1949". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
- ^ Caporiacco, L. di (1949). "Aracnidi della colonia del Kenya raccolti da Toschi e Meneghetti negli anni 1944-1946". Commentationes Pontificia Academia Scientiarum. 13: 309–492.