Tyrotama
Appearance
Tyrotama | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Hersiliidae |
Genus: | Tyrotama Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2005[1] |
Type species | |
T. arida (Smithers, 1945)
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Species | |
8, see text |
Tyrotama is a genus of African tree trunk spiders that was first described by S. H. Foord & A. S. Dippenaar-Schoeman in 2005.[2]
Species
[edit]As of May 2019[update] it contains eight species:[1]
- Tyrotama abyssus Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2005 – South Africa
- Tyrotama arida (Smithers, 1945) (type) – South Africa
- Tyrotama australis (Simon, 1893) – South Africa, Lesotho
- Tyrotama bicava (Smithers, 1945) – Namibia
- Tyrotama fragilis (Lawrence, 1928) – Angola, Namibia
- Tyrotama incerta (Tucker, 1920) – South Africa
- Tyrotama soutpansbergensis Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2005 – South Africa
- Tyrotama taris Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2005 – South Africa
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Tyrotama Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2005". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
- ^ Foord, S. H.; Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (2005). "A revision of the Afrotropical species of Hersiliola Thorell and Tama Simon with the description of a new genus Tyrotama (Araneae: Hersiliidae)". African Entomology. 13: 255–279.